RE: Challenge

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM have a solution posted on their e-business web site.  It's called C2N;
they use it in conjunction with CGI programming.  Start here:
http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/ebiz/cgi/ and take the link for the CGI
FAQ.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lurton Keel 
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 11:02 AM
> To:   'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Challenge
> 
> I have a little RPG challenge.
> I get an 8 character string that has a number that may or may not have a
> decimal position.
> Examples: 12345.78 or 123 or 1.23456, etc.
> I need to convert this to a number (10,5).
> The way it was done in RPG prior was to move to an array and scan for the
> decimal, do a bunch of move, movels.
> 
> Is there a more elegant way to do this in ILE?
> 
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