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Mark Walter wrote:
> ...
>     D fiscalYr                       4  0 overlay(dsfiscal:*next)
>
>
>     c                   eval      headdesc = Center('Fixed Model FY ' +
>     c                              %editc(fiscalYr - 1:'X'):40)
> The output looks like this:
>  Fixed Model FY 02001
>
>If I use the 'Z' edit code, it trims the zero but why is the zero there in
>the first place?

The problem could be solved by using %dec to control the length of the
result:
   %editc(%dec(fiscalYr-1:4:0):'X')

By the way, the length of a literal is the number of digits, so the
length of 1 is one ... Unless the literal is used in an integer-only
expression; then the length of 1 is ten or twenty, depending on the
release and H spec options.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/books/c0925083.pdf
"Chapter 21. Expressions" then "Precision rules for numeric operations"
then "Precision of intermediate results".

Barbara Morris



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