RE: TESTN

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, there is the little thing about garbage data.  The main use of testn
I've seen is validating stuff parsed out of a text file.  Chances are that
'12G' or, for that matter, '12J' is not a valid number if it comes from say,
an ASCII source.  I've received support calls at 2AM on this sort of thing,
and it's not fun 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dow [mailto:pcdow@MailAndNews.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:25 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: TESTN
> 
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Hmmm. Cursing TESTN for telling you that a negative number is 
> a number? How
> about just adding an extra statement:
> 
> C                   TESTN                   WORK              4  81
> C   81              MOVE      WORK          NUMBER            
> 4 081  81
> 
> If 81 is on, it's a positive number.
> 
> HTH,
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax
> 
> 
> 
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