RE: Precision??

[Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 21:28, Wilt, Charles wrote:
> Don't think so Joel.
> 
> There's a difference between
>  evalr - evaluate expression, with right adjust
> 
> and
> 
>  eval(r) - evaluate expression, respect decimal.

Brain fried as usual... I thought we were just talking about strings at
this point...

Joel

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> Charles Wilt
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> > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 19:48, RPower@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > On my quest to do more /free programming.  I decided to 
> > convert this 
> > > program to free format.
> > > What is the free format equivalent to the EVAL(r) opcode?
> > 
> > evalr
> > 
> > psuedo-code example:
> > 
> > d myString                  s                       10a
> > d myStringRt              s                       10a
> > 
> >  /free
> >      myString = "ABCD" ;
> >     evalr myString = "ABCD"
> >  /end-free
> > 
> > myString: "ABCD******"
> > myStringRt: "******ABCD"
> > 
> > Obviously, where "*" represents a blanks space.
> > 
> > Joel
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> > > >I'm confused with how the precision works in RPG right 
> > now?  I'm creating 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >a program to convert Miles Per Gallon, to Litres Per 100 
> > Km, for my own 
> > > >snip...
> > > 
> > > Ron
> > >                  When using eval in calcs, best it you 
> > specify an (r) 
> > > In the extended op-code section (there is also an H-spec 
> > > Level one) to Respect decimal places.
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