can anyone point me in right direction to SET/S definition

[timbertuck]

hi

trying to find the unofficial documentation to SET/S, found at this post: http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2704

I just ran across this and wanted to make sure that i understood it incase i was ever asked on Jeopardy

trying to search any forum (or even google) for SET/S amounts to a hill of beans. I tried various other terms to no avail, so that is why i posted the link above.

any help is greatly appreciated.

[Squashman]

LOL. This is the only site you will find documentation on the SET/S macro.

[timbertuck]

[Aacini]

SET/S is a macro with parameters. In this topic there is an extensive description of what "macros" are, and in this topic there is an additional description about how to write macros with parameters. If you want to understand how SET/S was written, you need to review those topics.

That said, SET/S macro just identify each particular case of the given parameters (replacement substring is larger/equal/shorter than original part, replaced part is at beginning/middle/end of original string, etc.) and perform the suitable process for each case. Each individual process is not too much complicated, but somewhat laborious because the involved details. If you have specific questions about how a particular part of SET/S macro works, you may post a question here.

Antonio