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  • Subject: Re: Char to numeric conversion question
  • From: boldt@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:41:58 -0400



David wrote:
>Midrange Computing published just such a routine in April of 1998.  It
>is available on their web site and was written by John Thompson.  I
>use a slightly modified version that returns a 30.9 result.  The published
>version handled values up to 25.9.  I use this with a utility procedure
>I wrote based on information posted on Midrange Computing's RPG
>and ILE programming forums by Barbara Morris and Bruce Vining.
>They described how to use the Late Bound Copy Numeric Value APIs.
>I suspect they have/will publish this as a technical tip.  I will forward
my
>code to interested parties.

Do you have a URL?  Or do we have to hunt through
http://www.midrangecomputing.com/ to find it?

This raises a related question:  Is there any
public archive of RPGIV procedures out there?
When RPG programmers write good procedures that
might be of interest to others, what's the best
way to share that code?

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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