Functions and CALL Routines under OpenVMS

GETSYM Function: OpenVMS

Returns the value of a DCL symbol.

Category:	General-Purpose OpenVMS
OpenVMS specifics:	All aspects are host-specific

Syntax
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Syntax

GETSYM(symbol-name)

symbol-name: is the name of a DCL symbol defined in your process. It can be a character variable, character literal enclosed in double quotation marks, or another character expression. If symbol-name is more than 200 characters long, it is truncated.

Details

The return value is the character string equivalent of the DCL symbol. If the symbol is defined as both a local and global symbol, then the local value is returned. If the symbol value string is longer than the length of the target variable, it is truncated.