Re: [open-cobol-list] nested call statements, best practices

[Patrick]

Thanks Michael

I was thinking about reposting, there was missing information I should 
have included and the mailing list reformatted my code so it was really 
hard to read.

Here is what I am trying to do in non-Cobol-ish pseudo code

Example 1:

cFunction = would be a call statement calling cFunction
cob-str-to-C = a utility to trim strings and append nul byte
incompatible = a picture based Cobol string

cFunction ( cob-str-to-C ( incompatible ) )



I know I could do something like


Example 2

temp = cob-str-to-C ( incompatible )

CFunction ( temp )

But then I have to use Cobol storage for the output of cob-str-to-C and 
that might be an issue. i was thinking that a nested call result would 
not have to be passed back into the PICTURE based system..

Does this make any more sense? Sorry to everyone for the last post.

Thanks