Re: character string assumed length




"Lynn McGuire" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If I call a subroutine with a given character string and I try to put
a larger character string in the string than the field size, what happens
?

The length in the callee is known (and can be found by the LEN intrinsic).
Thus, the assignment should simply truncate.

Regards,

Mike Metcalf


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