Re: just curious - Number of Parms(numeric zip codes and other cr imes against nature)

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Cunnane wrote:

>> >Why yes there is a solution for printing.
>> >Use one large character field and concatenate
>> >the individual fields together using the %Trim Biff.
>>
>> Good point, but what happens when the combined fields "overlap" the stuff
>> that follows?  
>
>Using your example, I would aim to output the following:
>
> Qty Product  Description              Price
>   1 CODE400  PC based editor        $300.00
>   1 OS400    Operating system for $30000.00
>              IBM AS/400 computer
>              system

I love this list!  Paul and Chris are quite right - there's _always_ a way
to make things work.  My point (badly made as ever) was that RPG's support
of VARCHAR is really just starting to be helpful.  If you want to use
VARCHAR fields you'll need to plan on how to present and update them in the
Block Mode world of the 5250 data stream.

I hope that this discussion was moderately useful to someone else on the
list besides me...

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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