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Windows Visual COBOL v9 Managed code truncating group items that contain x"00" when moving to another field or passing as a parameter

blinkok over 1 year ago

When moving a group item that contains a null to another field. The resulting field only contains characters up to the null.

Here is a project that demonstrates the issue

Any help is greatly appreciated

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+1 Chris Glazier over 1 year ago

This appears to be a problem with the debugger displaying the value in a tooltip or watch window.

The full group item is actually being moved which you can see if you right-click on the tooltip and choose hex display or select in the view dropdown the COBOL Visualizer option:

Chris Glazier
Rocket Software - Principal Technical Support Specialist
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0 blinkok 11 months ago in reply to Chris Glazier

Sorry for the late reply, i'm not sure i'm getting notifications.

Yes that is correct and thanks for the help, i really appreciate it.
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