RE: What is the key to the magic number 236,551.69 ??

[Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some text may have been put into those fields and it ends up being that
value when converted to numeric.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jimlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:40 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: What is the key to the magic number 236,551.69 ??
> 
> 
> I have an old system 36 RPG program that has broken unexpectedly.
> It is supposed to be adding up the receivables for a month.  The
> figures it comes up with are way too high (25 million instead of
> 36 thousand) and I have written some code to dump certain fields.
> 
> I see that for a number of records that it shouldn't even been
> including it has the invoice amount as 236,551.69.
> 
> This variable is being declared as 122 1292 so is zoned with 2
> decimal places.
> 
> I hate debugging S36 programs.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
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