Re: Was a decimal point keyed?

I don't understand....

Do your users want to be able to key
15.123
or
15123

And have it be recognized as 15.123?

That's just asking for trouble IMHO....how would you interpret 151?
0.151, 1.150, 11.5, 11.500, 115.000?

While the user may think the system should read their minds, you're
asking for trouble trying to make it do so.

If all you want is for
15
or
15.000

to be seen as 15.000...

Then just defined the field as numeric with 3 decimal places...

If you want to leave the field alpha, then simply use the %dec(myfield:5:3) BIF.

Charles

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Timothy Adair <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The simple formula test (if %int(field) = field;) works great to determine
if they keyed in an explicit decimal point, UNLESS they key in a decimal
with all trailing zeroes.  IOW, if the number they keyed is an integer, we
assume they did not key a decimal point.

If they key an integer with a decimal point, then the "test" returns True,
even though they did actually key an explicit decimal point.

Sorry, I should probably give a little more info.

I'm currently converting a large quantity of old RPG II programs to
free-format RPG IV, and the users want to be able to enter numeric fields,
with or without keying in a decimal point.  So I have to allow them to enter
data either way, and determine which way they keyed it in, and display it
with the decimal point.





"Vern Hamberg" <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mailman.38512.1279026764.2580.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Tim

Just curious - what does it matter if they type 15.0000? That is
effectively an integer with far too many extra keystroke, that's all in
one way of looking at it!!

In other words, what does this accomplish?

Vern

On 7/12/2010 1:22 PM, Timothy Adair wrote:

Is there a simple way to determine if a decimal point was explicitly
keyed
in a numeric field?  I've tried about every trick (and combination of
tricks) that I can think of.

I can do it programmatically by defining the screen field as alpha and a
second field as numeric but this gets a bit ugly, and could involve
dozens
of fields in hundreds of programs.

The basic test of ---

     if %int(field) = field;

--- works fine unless the user keys in a value like 15.0000.


Any ideas?

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