Re: String to Numeric

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Hans.  This is about the same information that
someone else gave me, though he showed me the atof function,
which in this specific case works better, although I have to also
use %Dec on it to convert it from float to integer.  My invoice
numbers can, and will, be up to 11 digits long, and it seems there
is a limit of 10 digits in atol.

Out of curiosity I tried changing it to 11 on the prototype, but no
dice, as I'm sure you're aware.  So to see what would happen I
changed it back to 10 and passed it '12345678901' and it came
back with some screwy number (2147483647) which is overflow
I guess.

The only modification I had to make was I could not use the header
switches of dftactgrp and bnddir (didn't exist in V3R7) and right now
I am compiling by selecting 14 with PDM and prompting with <F4>
and entering those values.

Okay, do you have a URL for a page on the internet that has the C
function library calls?  Or even the header file on the web (I understand
that no one could send me one as that would be an infringement of
copyright, but I can't use 'em if I don't know what they are).

Thanks again.

Regards,

Jim Langston

boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:

> Every ILE RPG IV programmer has at their disposal every function
> in the C runtime library, including such useful functions as
> atol.
>
> Try compiling and running the following program:
> <SNIP>
> (It compiles on V4R4, but with a few obvious modifications
> should also run on V3R7.)
> <SNIP>

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