On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:25:35 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >COBOL does this also, right? My COBOL skills are modest to say the least, >but if FOO is PIC X(5) then MOVE 'Now is the time' TO FOO silently truncates >the literal to 'Now i', correct?
I understood what Peter wrote differently than this. I thought that he meant that, for example, if a PARMLIB member used a 4 byte symbol, and that symbol had an 8 byte value, the 8 byte value would replace the 4 byte symbol in the record. The remainder of the record would then be shifted right by 4 bytes, and if that was pushed past column 71, that was where the truncation would occur. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
