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Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 20, 2012

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Support substrings with length zero in EGL

EGL supports the concept of substrings by means of the syntax: source[start:end], which returns the substring of source from position start to end, including both start and end position.

Currently, when end is less than start, a run-time exception is thrown, so the shortest substring that is currently supported has length one, which is when end == start.

This is true for all environments except RUI/JavaScript, where end is allowed to be less than start and an empty substring (i.e. with length zero) is returned when end == start - 1).

We request to extend this support for substrings with length zero, which is already available in the RUI/JavaScript environment, to all other environments.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 21, 2015

    This feature was delivered in version 9.5. The support is added to CobolGen and JavaGen.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 7, 2015

    The feature that is described in this request is a candidate for a future release.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 11, 2013

    Thank you for this suggestion. We think it is a good idea, and we will consider it in future planning.

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