Re: data decimal error

Excellent suggestion Marco! Using %size() would do the trick, kind of like
doing a simplified file level check.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Facchinetti" <facchinetti@yahoo.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: data decimal error


> You can record the lenght of the last ds wrote on the file
> and move back only the left part untill the stored lenght
> thi prevent decimal error but don't clear the new fileds.
> Once you write the ds again you got the new lenght.
>
> --- Peter Dow <pcdow@MailAndNews.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ron,
> >
> > Yes, you'd need the name of the data structure, or
> > something that had a 1-1
> > correspondence to that name as a key field.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ron Hawkins" <hwarangron@home.com>
> > To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 3:03 PM
> > Subject: RE: data decimal error
> >
> >
> > > Peter,
> > >
> > > We just make the "fix" program generic enough and it
> > works fine. Pass in
> > the
> > > starting position and the length and the key to the
> > records and one fix
> > > program handles it all. Now, if you can't come up with
> > a standard key to
> > the
> > > file, it would be a problem.
> > >
> > > Ron Hawkins
> > >
> > >
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