RE: int vs binary questions

   They are right-justified and zero filled (GTIN values are anyway).
   I like numeric better for ranges and we don't have to pad the values on
   the left with leading zeros to get them to collate correctly.
    
   -Bob

    

     -------- Original Message --------
     Subject: Re: int vs binary questions
     From: "Hans Boldt" <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>
     Date: Tue, February 10, 2004 8:22 am
     To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

     cozzi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
     >    Hans,
     >    I need them for the growing length of UPC codes.  Granted GTIN is
     going to
     >    be only 14, but they intend to do another increase "soon" and bring
     it up
     >    to 40 or so digits.  So I guess I'm storing GTIN in zoned decimal.
     >    
     >    -Bob

     Since you don't need to do arithmetic on UPC codes, why store them at
     all in numeric format? Why not just treat them as character data?

     Cheers! Hans

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