RE: converting string to a numeric

that would be Ludacris...and Little Jon...and maybe Jay-Z and Method
Man.

My son knows all about this.


On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:13:22 -0400, "Chris Payne"
<CPayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I have to back Hans up on this one, sub stringing numbers is ludicrous. 
> 
> Chris Payne
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:09 PM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: RE: converting string to a numeric
> 
> > From: Hans Boldt
> > 
> > Which might not be too bad for character
> > results, but it's ludicrous for numeric results.
> 
> If I want a numeric lot number and I want a sequence number in the back
> and a date in the front, I may feel like doing a MOVEL and a MOVE
> because it's really readable and saves me having to either:
> 
> 1. Create a data structure in some other part of the source code, or
> 2. Do some idiosyncratic numeric->alpha->numeric conversions that were
> copied from C or some other non-business-oriented language.
> 
> And if that's what I want to do, it's hardly ludicrous.
> 
> In fact, you might consider removing words like "ludicrous" from your
> vocabulary.  It makes it seem like you think you're smarter than those
> of us who actually use the language for a living.
> 
> Joe
> 
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