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  3. January 2005

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

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Which makes me wonder.  If you have a constant in your program, and this
> program may be shipped to several countries, and there may be a decimal in
> it, how should one format it?  For example, instead of
> D Pi      C   3.14
> Should one do
> D Pi      s              inz(3 + 14/100)
> Or should one just always have a DECEDIT hspec?
> 

The RPG compiler allows either period or comma as the decimal separator,
interchangeably.  You could code this:
      eval   x = 1.5 + 1,5

The DECEDIT hspec keyword only controls editing at runtime.  Use
DECEDIT(*JOBRUN) if you want it to use the job formatting values.

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