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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) wrote:

> There certainly needs to be:
>
> CharToDec()

atoi()

> DecToChar()

%editc

> CharToHex()
> HexToChar()

Hmmm... not sure how this is any different than above.

> I realize we already have %CHAR() that converts decimal to character.
> But we also have %DEC() which does not convert character to decimal.
> So I think we need some new built-in functions that are named
> consistently, OR we need %DEC to also convert character values to
> decimal.

We already have the tools to do just what you are talking about.  If
people don't want several ways to do things then these new opcodes
shouldn't be added.  Or maybe people want RPG to be more like Perl and
have many different ways to do the same thing.  But what is needed is
already there.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com



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