RE: replacing characters using %subst

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth asked:
> Lets say I want to substring characters 3 through 8 from the string
> abcdefghijklmnopqrst and put those characters in position  13 through
18
> of a field named FIELD2 which is large enough.

Don wrote: 
> EVAL %SUBST(FIELD2,13,6) = %SUBST(FIELD1,3,6)

Rob wrote:
> /free
>  %subst(field2:13:18)=%subst('abcdefghijklmnopqrst':3:8);
> /end-free


The correct answer is:

EVAL %SUBST(FIELD2:13:6) = %SUBST(FIELD1:3:6)

/free syntax removes the EVAL.


Joe

(And the problem is that the MOVE instruction is confusing?)