RE: Prototyping for either character or numeric

[michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

True...not an actual cast.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:30:39 -0500 (CDT), "Scott Klement"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
> MOVE and %DEC() actually copy the bytes to a new field (sometimes a
> temporary "intermediate result" field.)  They do not perform casting.  As
> far as I know, there's no equivalent to casting in RPG.
> 
> > But...you can use the old trick of passing numeric as character and then
> > casting it (MOVE or %Dec) into numeric.
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