%bif

This is as much a reminder to myself as anything else because the %CHAR built in function has the unfortunate behaviour of stripping leading zeroes when converting a number to a character value. Sometimes I need to keep those leading zeroes, for example when handling elderly date fields. Fortunately, there’s Read more…

Firstly, a disclaimer. The CTDATA definition keyword indicates that an array or table should be loaded at compile time. This is a terrible idea for a whole host of reasons, not least of which is that the data is locked away in the program and that you need a programmer Read more…