Re: text equation

Here is a tiny perl script that will do everything you want.
You could place the expression in either a member or a streamfile and read it 
into

$test_exp. Perl is so easy to install on the 400 and so valuable for things like
this, and so easy to learn.
Look, what would take hundreds of lines of code in RPG can be done with a five
line program...

# Program evaluates a complex mathmatical expression
#
#

# This next line you might need to change.
#!/usr/bin/perl

$test_exp = "";
$num = "";

#Main()
 $test_exp = '$num = ((100 * 10) + 1);';  # DO NOT FORGET THE SEMI COLON
                                                               # AT THE END OF 
THE
EXPRESSION
                                                               # BEFORE THE
CLOSING QUOTE!!!

 eval($test_exp);     # High level language function

 print($num);

exit;


Jim Langston wrote:

> Okay, REXX is easy to use.
>
> I created a source file called QREXXSRC and created a
> member called testing.  I then entered the source code shown
> below, saved it, and then did a 16 on the member.  After being
> told that my argument wasn't a regular expression, I did a 16
> and hit F4, then typed in 1 + 2 * 3 as the parameter.  A screen
> popped up and told me 7.
>
> Now I only have one question.  How do I run a REXX procedure
> from the command line?
>
> As it is, I now have a calculator for the AS/400.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Douglas Handy wrote:
>
> > Eric,
> >
> > >I never used REXX, do you have exemple or a good way to learn what I can do
> > >with it.
> >
> > I don't use it either -- but it is what you may want to use in this
> > case.  REXX is included on every system as part of OS/400 so your
> > machine will definitely be able to support it.
>
> <SNIP>
>
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