Re: Why you shouldn't be afraid to use VARCHAR in RPGLE

[Brian Parkins <goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can't think of a way of doing that, Doug. I think you'll have to define 
W_ADDRESS1 explicitly as:

  W_Address1 VarChar(200);

- then assign from PHADDRESS1 to W_ADDRESS1 to do TRIM-less string handling.

Brian.

On 05/12/2025 22:28, DEnglander--- via RPG400-L wrote:
> Does anyone know how to do something like this:
>
> I would like to define a %TRIMmed disk field that is CHAR(200)
> [PHADDRESS1] as a VARCHAR and eliminate the %TRIMs.
>
> So as not to hardcode the size of the VARCHAR, can I define it as VARCHAR
> but based on the length of the CHAR(200) field? Something like:
>
> dcl-s   w_address1      varchar(%len(phaddress1));
>
>
> Can that be done?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Doug