Hex-string in value assignment

[Stefan3737]

Hello everybody,

i have a little problem here with the value assignment by hex-strings, e.g:

- data length in decimal is 40 (result from "length(data)")
- assignment to a variable:
var = '00000028'X

works perfect in this case

Now i am searching for an expression like

var = d2x(length(data),8)

but it doesn't work. Can someone tell me why? How can I solve this?

Thanks in advance,

Stefan.

[Barry Schwarz]

It works fine on my system.

What does "doesn't work" mean? Do you get a syntax error? A wrong
value?

What happens if you try
var = length(data)
var = d2x(var,8)

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[Stefan3737]

Hello & thanks for your answer!

The code:

data = 'This is just a message for internal use.'
x = d2x(length(data))
say x

text_length = x

/* Text_length is one of a few parameters used to call CSNBOWH from ICSF to
calculate MD5 */

address linkpgm 'CSNBOWH',
'ex_rc',
'ex_rs',
'exit_data_length',
'exit_data',
'rule_array_count',
'rule_array',
'text_length',
'text',
'chain_vector_len',
'chaining_vector',
'hash_length',
'hash'


************************************

Result:

Running CSNBOWH to calculate MD5

Data = This is just a message for internal use.
Data length = 40

text_length 28
DATATYPE 28
CSNBOWH FAILed : RC = 00000008
RS = 00002AF8
************************************************

[ErichSt]

 | var = '00000028'X
If you need var in this format, use d2c(), not d2x()

[Gideon Natanzon]