Re: Questions

["Vasant Patel" <vasant.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right on Jon.....

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it <Jon.Paris@halinfo.it>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: Questions


>
>
>The result in Res (if it were defined as 2A which is the smallest it should
be)
>will be '11'.  Why - well .....
>
>c         MOVEA  *ON  *IN
>First the MOVEA will place '1' in every position in the *IN array - in
other
>words every indictor from 01 to 99 will be turned on.
>
>C         EVAL   RES=(VAR1>VAR2) + *IN35
>
>The expression VAR1 > VAR2 is true since VAR2 is treated as containing 'R'
>followed by 49 blanks and 'RE' is higher up the collating sequence than 'R
'.
>That logical expression being true renders a '1' since a logical expression
is
>equivalent to an indicator which in RPG can be treated as a character
field.
>For the same reason *IN35 renders a '1' since it was turned on by the
MOVEA.  So
>'1' + '1' = '11' !!!!
>
>I can only hope that this is some kind of "lets see who can write the most
>stupid obscure code in the world" contest because if I ever caught anyone
>programming like this I'd fire them!
>
>
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