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  3. June 2004

Re: Using a formula in a field in RPG

How about building a program on the fly that contains the formulas, then
calling the program.

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:34:38 -0500, "Charles Abbott"
<cabbott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> We are trying to mimic some old PL/1 code that uses formulas stored in a
> file and are executed at run time.  We are trying to figure out how we
> can
> execute the "value" of a formula field as an operation in RPG (assume
> V5).
> The formula will have valid field names from the program and normalized
> operation codes.  Something like "(width * length)/12" would be stored in
> a
> field in the file and executed at run time as part of the code.  Any
> ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles Abbott
> The Persimmon Group, Inc.
> 
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