In <e44df041-5f49-49af-9f83-c594036da...@yahoo.com>, on 09/28/2012 at 11:07 AM, Scott Ford <scott_j_f...@yahoo.com> said:
>Shmuel is correct.. I'm correct about suggesting LEFT as an alternative to SUBSTR in REXX. However, Peter is correct about SUBSTR not working the same in PL/I as in REXX, at least when STRINGRANGE is enabled. >test = 'abcdefghi'; Try test = 'abc' (if varyying), or declare test as CHAR(3). >X = substr(test,1,5); See above. -- 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