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

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you read the previous messages where someone had copied
the description for *HIVAL and *LOVAL out of some manual?
It stated that *HIVAL was all 0x00 except for numbers, where it
was all 9's with a negative number sign, just as I stated.

Regards,

Jim Langston

"R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." wrote:

> -----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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