Re: /Free testing a numeric value and by mistake use a comma in the test

["Richard ECUYER" <recuyer@xxxxxxx>]

i think because the , is the decimal separator.
try it with 10.000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Hautamaki" <ahautamaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:47 PM
Subject: /Free testing a numeric value and by mistake use a comma in the
test


> This was a bug in my program but I'm curious why I got the results I did.
>
> Here is an example;
>
>
>  D v_Number1       s              7  0
>  D v_Err                 s              1
>
>  v_Number1 = 500;
>
> if v_Number1 >= 10,000;
>   v_Err = 'Y';
> else;
>   v_Err = 'N';
> endif;
>
> Why was v_Number1 treated as greater or equal to 10,000? I'm at V5R2.
>
> Thanks
> Andy
>
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