On uniVerse to enable -1 as meaning "till the end of the string" use:
$OPTIONS REAL.SUBSTR mysub=longstring[starpos,-1] If you want to disable the -1 as meaning "till the end of string", use $OPTIONS -REAL.SUBSTR _________________________________________________________ "I reject your reality and substitute my own" - Adam Savage Glenn M. Herbert - Connectivity Development Engineer Information Integration Solutions, IBM Software Group 50 Washington Street Westboro, MA 01581 508-599-7281 direct Some platforms (Reality, maybe?) had the -1 option on substring extractions; I thought that was clever. Too bad it never caught on, or if it did, I didn't notice. -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com -----Original Message----- ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
