Re: VarChar to Char Field, Shouldn't This Work?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So far as I know, there should be no need to use the BIF - RPG just does 
it right.

I'd go first with Rory's suggestion - get the value in debug first - and 
get the hex value, to see what the length is in the varying variable.

HTH
Vern

On 1/5/2012 11:28 PM, Richard Marion wrote:
> Since the result field is a Char(17)... I would try the %CHAR() bif to
> convert the VarChar to Char.
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> I have a RPG field defined as VarChar(17) and a file field defined as
> Char(17). I thought I could do an eval on the two and it would work.
>
>      EDI850_Detail_Out.UnitPrice = EDI850_PO1_Record.UnitPrice
>
> In the above, PO1 is the varchar field. I am getting the following error:
> "Length of varying length variable is out of range."
>
> Am I forgetting something? My head has been stuck in the .NET world a bit
> too long me thinks....
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