EMS_EXPND

Expand and return a message

Description:

Any tokens in the supplied message are expanded and the result is returned in the character variable supplied. If the status argument is not set to SAI__OK on entry, no action is taken except that the values of any existing message tokens are always left undefined after a call to EMS_EXPND. If the expanded message is longer than the length of the supplied character variable, the message is terminated with an ellipsis.

Invocation

CALL EMS_EXPND( MSG, OPSTR, OPLEN, STATUS )

Arguments

MSG = CHARACTER ( ) (Given)
The raw message text.
OPSTR = CHARACTER ( ) (Returned)
The expanded message text.
OPLEN = INTEGER (Returned)
The length of the expanded message.
STATUS = INTEGER (Given)
The global status.