Re: Character to Numeric

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Ken wrote:
>>
>>Does RPG/Anything have a way of evaluating a character string to a
numeric
>>result?
>>
>>Imbedded decimal point would exist and imbedded thousands separator may
or
>>may not exist.  Negative sign may be placed on either left or right of
>>value. If one or more non-supported characters exist the result should be
>>Zero.
>>
>>Visual Basic has a function named Val and is coded: X = Val(somestring)

Eurrat wrote:
>Hey!  I has heard this request before.  Hans, I still feel that it would
be
>a great function to add to RPG.

Great!  Are you volunteering to write a procedure that
can do this?

(As I've noted before, if we added a new BIF to the RPG
language, programmers wouldn't get to use it for years.
But if someone wrote a procedure to do it and shared it
with others, programmers would benefit from it now.)

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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