You can subdivide an area with an EQUate statement.

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:53:35 -0400 Joseph Reichman
<[email protected]> wrote:

:>Binyamin 
:>
:>You are really good actually what I wanted to do was to copy over a variable 
name and call IKJCT441 to dump the variable 
:>
:>Hoping you can answer two follow up questions regarding tso test and clist 
:>
:>First where did you see this clist variable assignment format 
:>
:>I thought = operator was just a compare  
:>And guess you cannt use x’ cause clist unlike Rexx var only like printable 
character values for variables 
:>
:>Second if I getmain 20 bytes with test subcommand and equate it to workarea 
and want to copy data to bytes 5 - 8 
:>
:>Can reference to area in copy as workarea+4 
:>
:>Though it passes the syntax check for test 
:>
:>Doesn’t seem like it works
:>
:>Forgot for the  first to get the name of the variable in workarea I used 
workarea=c’name’ with ampersand it puts a curly brace in 
:>Thank you 
:>
:>> On Sep 23, 2024, at 11:10?AM, Binyamin Dissen 
<[email protected]> wrote:
:>> 
:>> ?On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:20:52 -0400 Joseph Reichman
:>> <[email protected]> wrote:
:>> 
:>> :>Is posssible to use the tso test subcommand copy to copy a clist variable 
for example in test script
:>> :>Germain 20 sp(0) equate(workarea)
:>> :>SET NAME = JOE
:>> :>Copy &name workarea(4)
:>> 
:>> :>Thought copy would let me copy a literal
:>> 
:>> workarea=c'&name'

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Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel

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