On Sat, 20 May 2023 19:09:03 -0400 Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote:

:>Since when does COBOL have LENGTH OF? I looked for this about 12 years ago 
and didn't find it, wrote a tiny and trivial assembler function to do the same 
thing. Did I miss it, or is it new since then?

:>Not that the code has needed any support, but I'm glad that if it ever 
becomes an issue, I can say "Use the BIF instead"!

Curious how you used a subroutine. It only worked for fields in a structure
where you passed the address of the field and the next field and it subtracted
the addresses?

Was there a way to make COBOL pass a dope vector with descriptions of the
field?

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Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]>
http://www.dissensoftware.com

Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel

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