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

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:21:58 -0500
>From: "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
>
>>From: Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
>>
>>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.

Sorry Bruce, but THIS is wrong, and Jim is right.  *HIVAL and *LOVAL ARE
type dependent, and are always valid values for the type.  E.g. *LOVAL
for packed(5,0), zoned(5,0), integer(5,0) are respectively -99999, -99999,
and -32768 (x'99999d', x'f9f9f9f9d9' and x'8000').

Barbara Morris


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