According to who? I know there are some pluses and minuses but where is this decided or is it just a preference.
Thanks Mark Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brutzman, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 11:30 AM Subject: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question > Speaking of mis-used commands and side-stepping some of the given code > craziness... > > It is better practice to atomize the code into discrete elements such as... > > Var1.F = oconv(Var1, 'MD0') > crt Var1.F 'R#11' > > rather than to try to kill two birds with one stone by including an oconv > statement inside a crt statement such as... > > crt oconv(Var1, 'MD0') > > --Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MAJ Programming > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:48 AM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question > > > This is real smart, making things harder than they should be. Just use <>. > > Mark Johnson > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 5:23 PM > Subject: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question > > > > Didn't work for me either. It may not fit what you need, but SWAP can make > > it work. > > > > VAR1 = 'SAM':@VM:'TRUDY' > > SWAP @VM WITH '*' IN VAR1 > > FMTSTR = 'G*1' > > CRT OCONV(VAR1,FMTSTR) > > > > Brad > > > > > > U.S. BANCORP made the following annotations > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains > information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy > laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the > intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from > retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this > information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have > received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank > you in advance for your cooperation. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
