On 2016-06-27 09:04, John McKown wrote:
COBOL has succumbed to C interface by offering the Z'Character String' which automatically puts a x'00' at the end. I want to do this in HLASM. Originally, I did:STRING DS CL7 ORG STRING DC CL6'HELPME' DC X'00' But that is really odoriferous. So now I do: &NULL SETC BYTE(00) STRING DC 'HELPME&NULL' Not quite as pungent, but better. Does anybody have a better way? Should I just make a macro, perhaps DCZ, to do the above for me automatically? This is more a technique question than a technical one. What would be more understandable to most HLASM programmers?
I'd say use a macro, and use a name for the macro that advertises what the macro generates. IMHO something like CSTRING would be more descriptive than DCZ.
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