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

[Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, From the ILE RPG Reference:
*HIVAL 
        Character or graphic fields: The highest collating character for the
system (hexadecimal FFs). Numeric fields: The maximum value allowed for the
corresponding field (with a positive sign if applicable). For Float fields:
*HIVAL for 4-byte float = 3.402 823 5E38 (x'FF7FFFFF') *HIVAL for 8-byte
float = 1.797 693 134 862 315 E308 (x'FFEFFFFFFFFFFFFF') Date, time and
timestamp fields: See "Date Data Type" in topic 2.3.4 <2.3.4>, "Time Data
Type" in <2.3.5> topic 2.3.5 <2.3.5> and "Timestamp Data Type" in topic
2.3.6 <2.3.6> for *HIVAL values for date, time, and timestamp data. 
*LOVAL 
        Character or graphic fields: The lowest collating character for the
system (hexadecimal zeros). Numeric fields: The minimum value allowed (with
a negative sign if applicable). For Float fields: *LOVAL for 4-byte float =
-3.402 823 5E38 (x'7F7FFFFF') *LOVAL for 8-byte float = -1.797 693 134 862
315 E308 (x'7FEFFFFFFFFFFFFF') Date, time and timestamp fields: See "Date
<2.3.4> Data Type" in topic 2.3.4 <2.3.4>, "Time Data Type" in topic 2.3.5
<2.3.5> and "Timestamp Data Type" in topic 2.3.6 <2.3.6> for *LOVAL values
for date, time, and timestamp data. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. [SMTP:rbruceh@attglobal.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 9:22 AM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: How do you use *HIVAL and *LOVAL?????
> 
> 
> 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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