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Re: Was a decimal point keyed?

Timothy Adair wrote:
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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.


Maybe you should have a preference, so during a given session the user has to always enter the data with or without the decimal point. That way you don't have to guess, and your users are happy. You'd have to use a character field for the input.

if preference = NO_DECPOINT;
val = %int(input) * .01;
else;
val = %dec(input:63:31);
endif;

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