RE: Character to Numeric

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't had any problems.  This is basically the IBM one.  The original
IBM one produced wrong results 99% of the time (ie 1.9999999 instead of 2).
So I just added a half adjust and so far it's worked flawlessly for 3 years
or more.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bmorris@ca.ibm.com [mailto:bmorris@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 5:25 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Character to Numeric
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
> >Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 5:32 AM
> >
> >I have an ILE subprocedure at www.bvstools.com in the source 
> downloads
> >section.  If not there, check the source samples at 
> www.netshare400.com.
> 
> Brad, your subprocedure uses floating point to calculate the result
> (the result of 10 ** DecPos is a floating point value).  This 
> means that
> every once in a while you will return a result that isn't the same
> as the input value.
> 
> A while ago I posted a subprocedure here that doesn't use 
> floating point,
> but instead builds up a zoned(30,9) value using character processing.
> 
> Barbara Morris
> 
> 
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