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  • Subject: Re: Eval Errors
  • From: boldt@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:48:34 -0400


Jim wrote:
>I am sure this has been covered before, but...
>I am do the maintenance for a bunch of programs that use Eval
>for calculations.  Every once in awhile I get the error that
>the field is not big enough.
>
>What is the best way to use eval to avoid this?

Yes, this has been covered before.

The thing to do is this:  Fix the bug that gives you numeric
values too big to store in the result.  Perhaps you need a
bigger target variable?  Perhaps you need to check the
validity of the operands before doing that particular
computation?

Cheers!  Hans

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


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