RE: How to create my own built-in functions

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leslie Russell wrote:

>Buck, if it is used in RPG why not 
>just return an indicator to the 
>caller. That way the user can say
>C           if       rc
>C           ...
>C           endif
>
>Or is the syntax similar when you return 
>an integer to the caller?

You could certainly change the prototypes to "N" (indicator) if you wanted
to.  I basically cribbed this quickie example from some existing code which
used integer.    You can't use the form above with an integer data type -
unlike C, RPG IV doesn't overload "Indicator" or "boolean" data types onto
integers.  

Also, as Scott pointed out, I have a dopey bug (I defined rc as unsigned
integer when it should be SIGNED integer.  Thanks Scott!  Extra eyes make
for fewer bugs!  I tested for the "successful" condition but not for the
"failed" condition.  I gotta start paying closer attention to my own sig!)

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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