Re: How do you use *HIVAL and *LOVAL?????

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: How do you use *HIVAL and *LOVAL?????


>No, *HIVAL is the highest value a variable can contain.  So if it was a
number
>
>9, 0 the *HIVAL would return 999999999 and *LOVAL would return
>-999999999
>


Sorry, but this is just wrong.
 *HIVAL is x"FF" and *LOVAL is x"00".  They are not type dependant, they are
constants. Like *ALL"9" or *ZEROS or *BLANKS.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
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 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

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