I wrote earlier about a new Built in Function, BiF, that makes it easier to concatenate variables or strings. Another addition to the RPG language in the fall Technology Refreshes, IBM i 7.5 TR1 and 7.4 TR7, is another BiF to concatenate elements from an array.
The syntax of %CONCATARR BiF is very similar to %CONCAT I wrote about before:
Result = %concatarr(<separator character(s)> :
<array name>) ;
Let me jump to my first example. This is the RPG code for the first part of my example program:
