Yes, I always ensure that anything used for subscripting is within bounds (including lower-bound), either logically or explicitly. This is, unsurprisingly, recommended by IBM.
However, doing this turns out to be far from universal. I guess that's why SSRANGE was introduced originally (I think with COBOL II). On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 02:51:24 UTC+1, Steve Beaver wrote: > Personally I have NEVER used subscript range. I have always checked the > upper ranges > Before I do anything having to do with indexing through arrays > > Steve > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
