In <dc74548a025aff4a85f46926802a9b2308fb7...@chsa1035.share.beluni.net>, on 09/27/2012 at 09:00 AM, "Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)" <peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com> said:
>You might wonder why the CSI* variables are filled using the >substr() function. Indeed; why not LEFT? >There is a special behavior of substr(), left(), right() in REX that >I haven't seen in other languages (and have indeed been missing >there): If the source string is *shorter* than the target length >specified in the function call, the source string is paded with >blanks to make the result a string of the desired length. PL/I -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN