RE: right$

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Would this work?

C   Eval   myRightValue = Right( somefield : 10)

If the RIGHT procedure was this:

     P Right           B                   Export

     D Right           PI          4096A   VARYING
     D InString                    4096A   VARYING VALUE

     D nCharCnt                       5I 0 Const

     C                   Eval      InString = %Trimr(InString)
     C                   if        nCharCnt <= %Len(InString) and
nCharCnt > 0
     C                   return    %Subst(InString
     C                                      : %Len(InString) -
(nCharCnt-1)
     C                                      :  nCharCnt)
     C                   endif
     C                   return    ''
     PRight            E

Bob Cozzi


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:56 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: right$
>
>
> Joel,
>
> >I'm lazy and absent minded so I don't mind the work field
> too much.<g>
> >...  In some ways I'd prefer the work field so I could look
> at the code
> >a week later, read the comment, and understand what I was
> trying to do.
>
> That's the same reasons I created a Right() function in a
> service program back at V3R2, along with lots of other string
> handling functions.  It uses work variables but who cares?
> The code in the calling program would look like:
>
>    MYVAR = Right( '   thisisseveralcharacters   ': 10 )
>
> or more likely use a variable name for the first argument.
>
> Why not just create a subprocedure to do it?  And better yet,
> put it in a service program?
>
> Doug
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