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>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:09:19 -0500
>From: "Andrew Borts" <Andrewb@SETACORPORATION.com>
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>Is 5I 0 the same as 2B 0?
No, 5I 0 and 2B 0 are both stored in 2-byte binary
form but 2B 0 only has a range of -99 to +99. With
MAX(300), your 2B 0 code would fail if you had more
than 99 entries.
4B 0 is closer and would work for your purpose. But the
RPG equivalent of the "binary length 2" used for CMD
parms, APIs etc is 5I 0. ("binary length 4" is 10I 0.)
RPG's B-binary type is a decimal type stored in binary
form. It gets converted to packed whenever it's actually
used in the program, and has the same range as the packed
type. RPG's I-binary (or "integer") type is a true binary
type with the full binary range (for 2 bytes, it's -32768
to 32767).
Barbara Morris
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