Re: Why you shouldn't be afraid to use VARCHAR in RPGLE

Does anyone know how to do something like this:

I would like to define a %TRIMmed disk field that is CHAR(200) 
[PHADDRESS1] as a VARCHAR and eliminate the %TRIMs.

So as not to hardcode the size of the VARCHAR, can I define it as VARCHAR 
but based on the length of the CHAR(200) field? Something like:

dcl-s   w_address1      varchar(%len(phaddress1));


Can that be done?

Thank you,

Doug



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