RE: Max length of a VARYING field

["Bob Cozzi" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No I didn't. It must have been below my window of visibility. <fim>
But I like *DEFN better since it all variables not just VARYING could use it and
it would have the same meaning.

-Bob Cozzi
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:32 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Max length of a VARYING field

Bob Cozzi wrote:
> ...
> > %addr(x:*data) seems a (much much) more natural way of coding.
>
> To retrieve the address of a varying field, right? Certainly we still
>  need another way to determine the declared length of a field. %len()
>  sort of did that for most things, but not for VARYING fields.
>
> So I propose this:
>
> %len(myVarField:*DEFN)

Bob, you didn't see the second part of my message, although you quoted it :)

> > We hadn't realized until this thread that there was such a need to 
> > know the maximum number of characters a field can hold; 
> > %len(string:*MAX) is how I would do it, for any string type, not 
> > just varying, to avoid having to divide by the character size for 
> > ucs2 and dbcs.  We'll see ...