Re: Overlay Keyword

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

Bruce wrote:
>I have a question using the "overlay" keyword.
>
>If I have two field each 4 alpha i.e. MMDD and YEAR and I want to combine
>them to look like YEARMMDD which is 8 alpha.How would I use the overlay
>keyword to accomplish this. I know you can use a data structure or the cat
>function to do this but I was trying to learn new stuff.

On V4R4 try:

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D ds              ds
D   yearmmdd
D     year                       4a   overlay(yearmmdd)
D     mmdd                       4a   overlay(yearmmdd:*next)
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Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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