RE: AW: Calculating a New Date

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 3:13 PM
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Subject: Re: AW: Calculating a New Date


Bob Cozzi wrote:
> 
> I think what was meant to be said is that in V5R2 they enhanced %INT 
> and %DEC to convert character text containing numeric data to numeric.  
> But it doesn't do as good a job as the old atoi() and atoll() 
> functions in C, because if edit symbols are in the numeric value, the 
> %DEC blows. :(  I would continue to use atoll() if you have it 
> prototyped.  If decimal data is needed you either need the C2N() 
> procedure that's been floating around, or the RPG ToolKit with the 
> CharToNum() proc.
> 

Bob, what edit symbols doew atoll like that %dec doesn't like?

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