Well, various folks have convinced me that I missed this back when I looked for it! I have a hazy memory of asking someone-not this list-about it and being told "No" but that might be wishful thinking.
Hmm, it *had* been a while; I looked at the source, found this comment: * Given two COBOL data elements, return an integer * containing the difference between them. This is * necessary because COBOL does not provide a way to * do so, and users need this to calculate offsets * between fields in a COBOL copybook So it's not quite "length of" but surely one could have calculated it using lengths. The actual function is, unsurprisingly, quite short: ten lines of code, most of it linkage, only four lines of actual "do it" code. Anyway, thanks for all the replies! I do remember feeling kind of disbelieving that this wasn't possible using native COBOL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
