RE: Challenge

[Alan Campin <Alan.Campin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't you have problems with floating point precision? Floating point is
an approximation of the number from what I understand. That approximation
may or may not be converted correctly. 

Also, in his example, he indicated something like "123,". How would atof
handle something like that. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ravi Raghu [mailto:rraghu@RCCL.COM]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 11:02 AM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: Re: Challenge




Hi,
        Check ,this works

 H Bnddir('QC2LE') DftActGrp(*NO)
 d atof             PR             8f   Extproc('atof')
 d  char                          30    CONST

 dCharValue      s             30    INZ('12345.678                      ')
 d Float                s              8f   INZ

 dPacked           s             10p 5 INZ
 c                   Eval      Float = atof(CharValue)
 c                   Eval      Packed = Float
 c                   Eval      *INLR = *ON


Regards,
Ravi Raghu
305-982-2456





Lurton Keel <Lurton.Keel@serx.com> on 11/05/99 11:01:55 AM

Please respond to RPG400-L@midrange.com

To:   "'RPG400-L@midrange.com'" <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
cc:    (bcc: Ravi Raghu/IT/MIA/RCL)

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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