I left out the bit where the addition was conditional. I suppose using the while or until is actually more understandable anyway.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Billy Ashton > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 1:52 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: New Rexx Question > > Dave, you are correct that stem.0 is resolved at the start. If you think about > it, if it were dynamic, then your code would be a never-ending loop. > > The key here is to know how many items you want to add, and where in the > stem list you want to add them. Give us a little more detail, and we can help > you out. > > Billy > > > From: "Gibney, Dave" <gib...@wsu.edu> > To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu > Sent: 2/27/2020 4:14:49 PM > Subject: New Rexx Question > > >I wish to process a basic stem variable with stem.0 containing the > >occurrences, do I = 1 to stem.0 > >/* but, inside here, I wish to add additional occurrences */ > > a = stem.0 + 1 > > stem.a = 'New item' > > stem.0 = a > >end > > > >It appears that the do start and stop are evaluated and fixed at the > beginning and subsequent alterations to the end value aren't effective. > >Is this just the way it is? Or is there a technique I don't know? > > > >Dave Gibney > >Information Technology Services > >Washington State University > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > >email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
