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  3. April 2003

Re: AW: Calculating a New Date

Bob Cozzi wrote:
> 
> I think what was meant to be said is that in V5R2 they enhanced %INT and
> %DEC to convert character text containing numeric data to numeric.  But it
> doesn't do as good a job as the old atoi() and atoll() functions in C,
> because if edit symbols are in the numeric value, the %DEC blows. :(  I
> would continue to use atoll() if you have it prototyped.  If decimal data is
> needed you either need the C2N() procedure that's been floating around, or
> the RPG ToolKit with the CharToNum() proc.
> 

Bob, what edit symbols doew atoll like that %dec doesn't like?

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