RE: text equation

What about eval?  Why would this not work?

Bradley V. Stone
BVS/Tools - www.bvstools.com
Netshare400 - www.netshare400.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Panissard [mailto:EPanissard@idt.pf]
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 6:22 PM
> To: Mailing List AS400
> Subject: text equation
> 
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I am looking for an RPG sub-program who can recognize and 
> calculate a text
> equation like :
>     (250*(12+45.5))-10
> 
> the equation can contain : the 4 basic operation, decimal 
> point, multiple
> parenthesis
> 
> Eric Panissard
> EPanissard@idt.pf
> 
> 
> 
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