Writes an INTEGER or INT64 value as a 32-bit unsigned value to a MEMPTR or RAW value. This statement is analogous to the PUT-UNSIGNED-SHORT statement, except with a 32-bit value.

Syntax

PUT-UNSIGNED-LONG ( destination , position ) = expression
destination
A MEMPTR or RAW variable. If destination is the Unknown value (?), it remains the Unknown value (?). If destination is a MEMPTR and its region is not allocated (by a SET-SIZE statement, or by a Windows DLL or Unix shared object entry point), the AVM generates a run-time error.
position
An INTEGER or INT64 value greater than 0 that indicates the byte position to write expression. If position is less than 1, the AVM generates a run-time error. For a RAW destination, if position is greater than the length of destination, the AVM increases the length of destination to position plus the remaining bytes needed to store expression. The gap between the original destination length and position is padded with null bytes. For a MEMPTR destination, if position is greater than the length of destination or does not leave sufficient room to store expression, the AVM generates a run-time error.

For a RAW destination, if position is greater than the length of destination, the AVM increases the length of destination to position plus the remaining bytes needed to store expression. The gap between the original destination length and position is padded with null bytes.

For a MEMPTR destination, if position is greater than the length of destination or does not leave sufficient room to store expression, the AVM generates a run-time error.

expression
An INTEGER or INT64 value of a constant, field, variable or expression. If expression is an INT64 value exceeding the maximum value of an UNSIGNED-LONG, the AVM generate an overflow error at run time.

Notes

  • This statement supports byte-swapping only if destination is a MEMPTR data type. The statement will first examine the byte-order setting of the MEMPTR and then swap the bytes appropriately while putting the data into the MEMPTR memory.
  • For more information on accessing DLL routines from ABL, see OpenEdge Programming Interfaces.

See also

GET-UNSIGNED-LONG function, LENGTH function, LENGTH statement, RAW function, RAW statement, SET-SIZE statement