Re: Challenge

Hi,

You can get such a string by the API like below. Sorry, this is an OPM
example.Of course you can do it by the ILE.

     H        1   Y/                                    1
     I            DS
     I I            0                     B   1   40MSKLEN
     I I            0                     B   5   80RCVLEN
     I I            0                     B   9  120INTLEN
     I I            0                     B  13  160PNTLEN
     IERROR       DS
     I I            0                     B   1   40BYTPRV
     I I            0                     B   5   80BYTAVA
     I                                        9  15 ERRID
     I                                       16  16 ERR###
     I                                       17 272 INSDTA
     C******************************************************
     C*             M A I N -  R O U T I N E                
     C******************************************************
     C                     CALL 'QECCVTEC'                 :
     C                     PARM           MASK  256        :
     C                     PARM           MSKLEN           :
     C                     PARM           RCVLEN           :
     C                     PARM ' '       ZEROSP  1        ;
     C                     PARM 'J'       EDITCD  1        ;<=edit code
     C                     PARM ' '       SYMBOL  1        :
     C                     PARM 15        INTLEN           :
     C                     PARM 0         PNTLEN           :
     C                     PARM           ERROR            :
     C*                                                    ;
     C                     Z-ADD-1500000  WRK    150
     C*                                                    ;
     C                     MOVE *ZERO     EDIT             ;
     C                     MOVE WRK       EDIT             ;
     C                     CALL 'QECEDT'                   :
     C                     PARM           EDITED256        ;
     C                     PARM           RCVLEN           ;
     C                     PARM           EDIT   15        ;<==
     C                     PARM '*ZONED'  EDTCLS 10        ;
     C                     PARM 15        INTLEN           ;
     C                     PARM           MASK             ;
     C                     PARM           MSKLEN           ;
     C                     PARM           ZEROSP           ;
     C                     PARM           ERROR            :
     C*                                                    ;
     C                     MOVE *ON       *INLR            ;
     C                     RETRN                           ;

After you call the QECEDT, character field EDIT has 1,500,000- . (Would
you check it by the debager?)

And you better check the ERROR after you call the APIs. I didn't do it
in the example above.

Hope this help.

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999 10:01:55 -0600 
Lurton Keel <Lurton.Keel@serx.com> wrote as :

   > I have a little RPG challenge.
   > I get an 8 character string that has a number that may or may not have a
   > decimal position.
   > Examples: 12345.78 or 123 or 1.23456, etc.
   > I need to convert this to a number (10,5).
   > The way it was done in RPG prior was to move to an array and scan for the
   > decimal, do a bunch of move, movels.
   > 
   > Is there a more elegant way to do this in ILE?
   > 
   > 
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