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Hi Mark! How to check if exactly 1 out of n conditions is true? I can't think of any easy way to do that. With a bit of analysis, it's clear that A XOR B XOR C works for all cases except where all three operands are true. Generalizing to more conditions, it appears that stringing together conditions using XOR gives TRUE if the number of TRUE conditions is odd, FALSE if an even number. So it looks like some other technique is needed. I can't imagine that this would be a common thing in application programming, but you could write a RPG IV procedure that takes n char(1) or indicator parameters where n-1 of them are optional. The procedure would count the number of true conditions and return the appropriate indicator value. Will XOR be added to RPG IV? About half a year ago, I suggested that it might be. However, when I raised the idea in my group, the response was why bother, since <> provides equivalent function. So, one way to answer the question is that the language already has XOR! But if an explicit XOR is added, it still wouldn't help for your specific situation. Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com owner-midrange-l@midrange.com on 98-03-26 00:04:37 Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com cc: Subject: Re: Exclusive-or (was: Re: Biton/Bitoff) Hans, At 09:16 AM 3/19/98 -0500, you wrote: >However, if you want to do exclusive-or in a conditional expression, >you can use the <> operator. For example, the <> in the following >statement acts just like exclusive-or: > > IF (A<17) <> (B=10) > >That is, the condition is true only if the results of (A<17) and (B=10), >are not the same. How would you deal with additional condition groups, where you wanted the expression to be true when only one out of n expressions is true? Will XOR make it as an opcode? -mark +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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