RE: Prototyping for either character or numeric -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: Prototyping for either character or numeric
From: Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:30:39 -0500 (CDT)
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MOVE and %DEC() actually copy the bytes to a new field (sometimes a
temporary "intermediate result" field.)  They do not perform casting.  As
far as I know, there's no equivalent to casting in RPG.

> But...you can use the old trick of passing numeric as character and then
> casting it (MOVE or %Dec) into numeric.

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RE: Prototyping for either character or numeric , michaelr_41

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