Re: Entry Parameters

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Joe,

Ah, got it in one.  And a Palfrey for that wee laddie!

The question was rhetorical or in common parlance "left as an exercise for the 
reader"  :)

The number of people who don't understand this sort of thing (and call 
themselves programmers) 
beggars belief .... ooh, better stop now ...

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I)
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:40:20 -0600
> From: "Joe Teff" <joeteff@earthlink.net>
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Reply-To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Entry Parameters

> 
> Because the hex representation for a zoned decimal value 1 is the same
> as for the character value 1 (both are x'F1'). Every digit of a zoned
> decimal number occupies 1 byte as does a character value.
> 
> Joe Teff
> 
> Simon Coulter wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Jim,
> > 
> > Despite Buck's very well explained append, because you are expecting Zoned 
>Decimal values 
you
> > can simply invoke the program with:
> > 
> >  CALL PGM(JIMCONEX/CHGAPOPEN) PARM('51' '990110' '51' '000120')
> > 
> > Note the 'quotation' marks -- yeah, I know they're apostrophes.
> > Note that no 'conversions' are neccessary.  The character values 
>'magically' become 
numbers.
> > 
> > Why does this work?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Simon Coulter.

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