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Examples

To set field DEPT to positions 1–20 of address line 2, enter the following:

/DEFINE DEPT CHAR(20)
/SET DEPT = A2

Similarly, if DEPT was in columns 21–40 of address line 2, you would extract this information as follows:

/DEFINE DEPT CHAR(20)
/SET DEPT = SUBSTR(A2,21,20)