Re: TESTN

Hi Joel,

I agree. But TESTN isn't really a good choice there, because ASCII data, say
from Excel, generally has a leading sign for negative numeric fields, which
TESTN would say is not numeric.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Fritz" <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:16 AM
Subject: RE: TESTN


> Well, there is the little thing about garbage data.  The main use of testn
> I've seen is validating stuff parsed out of a text file.  Chances are that
> '12G' or, for that matter, '12J' is not a valid number if it comes from
say,
> an ASCII source.  I've received support calls at 2AM on this sort of
thing,
> and it's not fun
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Dow [mailto:pcdow@MailAndNews.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:25 PM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: TESTN
> >
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Hmmm. Cursing TESTN for telling you that a negative number is
> > a number? How
> > about just adding an extra statement:
> >
> > C                   TESTN                   WORK              4  81
> > C   81              MOVE      WORK          NUMBER
> > 4 081  81
> >
> > If 81 is on, it's a positive number.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Peter Dow
> > Dow Software Services, Inc.
> > 909 425-0194 voice
> > 909 425-0196 fax
> >
> >
> >
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