9.72 FILLSTRING

Fills a field with as many occurrences of a specified string as will fit in a given field.

Arguments

Return Values

Note: This function will put as many occurrences of a string as will fit. If the target field length is not a multiple of the length of the string to be repeated, the last occurrence will be truncated.

Examples

Fill a field with the character '*' (asterisk).

DEFINE     FIELD(#OUTEXT)  TYPE(*CHAR) LENGTH(10)

**********

USE        BUILTIN(FILLSTRING) WITH_ARGS('''*''') TO_GET(#OUTEXT)

DISPLAY    FIELDS(#OUTEXT)

Resulting display would look something like this:

       FUN01          Fillstring BIF       

                                              

       Out text . . . ********************

                                              

       CF1=Help                              

                                              

Fill a string with a requested value.

DEFINE     FIELD(#INTEXT)  TYPE(*CHAR) LENGTH(4)

DEFINE     FIELD(#OUTEXT)  TYPE(*CHAR) LENGTH(18)

**********

REQUEST    FIELDS(#INTEXT)

USE        BUILTIN(FILLSTRING) WITH_ARGS(#INTEXT) TO_GET(#OUTEXT)

DISPLAY    FIELDS(#OUTEXT)

Resulting displays would look something like this:

       FUN01         Fillstring BIF       

                                             

       In text . . . FRED                  

                                             

       CF1=Help                             

                                             

then,

       FUN01          Fillstring BIF      

                                              

       Out text . . . FREDFREDFREDFREDFR

                                              

       CF1=Help