On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:41:22 -0400, David Spiegel wrote:

>Hi Walt,
>Yeah, I used Rexx's Trace, but, could not figure out how x'99' became x'D9'.
>
He's suggesying that with TRACE I, sharp eyes, and intimate familiarity
with the EBCDIC character set you might have spotted that the input
to C2X() was the 4-character string '?R??' where you might have
expected '?r??', blaming the input to C2X(), not C2X() itself.

That's a long shot.

>(The reason why the error surfaced, is that x'99' is an 'r' and the Pull
>ORd it with x'40' to uppercase it.)
>
PULL is simply bad design.  Simpler is better.


>On 2023-04-27 11:39, Walt Farrell wrote:
>>     ...
>> Using the tracing functions in REXX to do the debugging, rather than 
>> browsing the data set itself, would also have been helpful.

-- 
gil

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