PL/I CAN 6

From: robin (robin_v_at_bigpond.mapson.com)
Date: 12/30/03


Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 06:02:22 GMT


> 6. CANT access substrings without use of functions.

FALSE.

The equivalent PL/I uses the SUBSTR pseudo-variable: --
substr (book(lines,*), 36, 8) = 'page nnn';

> ! -------------------------------
> book(lines,:)(36:43) = 'page nnn' ! center bottom ALL book pages