Re: Writing Reusable Informix-4GL at www.iiug.org

In your article you present code like PRINT set_font('ARIAL', 10) CLIPPED; Unless this has changed in recent releases (I'm using 4.10) this is a mistake, you shouldn't clip function returns in a print statement, instead the function should clip the value it returns. When you print the return from a function directly it doesn't get padded with trailing spaces. By putting the "clipped" statement in the called function the function gets the ability to output trailing space without having it molested. -- Roderick Schertler roderick@argon.org