You may also just say,  !TELL !hpstreamedby  <your message>,  without the
substring manipulation.
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From: James English <[log in to unmask]> on 03/23/2000 06:04 AM

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Subject:  Re: [HP3000-L] How to extract 1st 6 bytes of HPSTREAMEDBY in a
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I do the same thing, but slightly different:

!SETVAR TO LFT ( HPSTREAMEDBY, POS ( " ", HPSTREAMEDBY ) -1 )

This returns everything up to the first space in the string. I use it all
the time in my TELL commands.

For instance, if HPSTREAMEDBY returns "USER.ACCOUNT (#S3997)", then the
string "USER.ACCOUNT" will be returned into the variable TO. I then set up
my TELL command like this:

!TELL !TO; some message here

HTH!

Jim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Willis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:59 PM
> Subject: How to extract 1st 6 bytes of HPSTREAMEDBY in a Streamx job
>
>
> Can someone please tell me how I can capture the first 6 bytes of
> HPSTREAMEDBY from within a Streamx job? This is what I'm getting so far:
>
>     :SETVAR VAR LFT(!HPSTREAMEDBY,1,6)
>     SETVAR VAR LFT(JAY.PDEV (#S98),1,6)
>                                            ^
>     More parameters specified than allowed for this function. (CIERR
> 9825)
>
> Thanks for any offerings.
>