Re: Reply to : Help - Can't see the forest for the trees


Well, V.Jagadish, it won't work!

Aside from the poor form (TAGs and GOTOs) your IF test will ALWAYS evaluate to 
true even if 
xxfac contains '20' or '30' or '40'.  When you are negating tests you need to 
AND the clauses.

    c                   if        xxfac <> '20' AND xxfac <>'30' AND xxfac 
<>'40'

It's exactly this sort of abomination that gives RPG (and RPG programmers) a 
bad name -- it's 
right up there with running out of indicators.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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//--- forwarded letter -------------------------------------------------------
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> Date: Wed, 19 May 99 10:09:52 +0530
> From: "vjagadish" <vjagadish@inf.com>
> To: "'RPG400-L@midrange.com'" <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> Reply-To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Reply to : Help - Can't see the forest for the trees

> 
> Reply: Instead the three conditions in one IF probably you can use the
> following:
> 
>   *  Check for valid fac/dept number combinations
>    c                   if        xxfac <> '20'  or xxfac <>'30'  or xxfac
> <>'40'
> 
>    c                             GOTO  ENDTAG
> 
>    c                             ENDIF
> 
>    c                             IF xxdept = '0200'
> 
>    *                             Perform the rest of the operation .......
> 
> I guess this would work ......
>   Regards,
> V.Jagadish
> Infosys Technologies Limited.

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