Re: tally of many fields

Steve,

HI I have to tally up 9 fields for some total. was wondering if in /FREE
> this is done in one statement, or need to do so the traditional method, 2
> fields at a time.


For the record, you don't even need to user /Free for this, though I do
prefer /Free myself.  You can use the EVAL statement in fixed format RPG ILE
as well, though you are more likely to need to line wrap more often with the
shorter space available in the extended factor 2 area of the fixed format
specifications.  If using more than one type of math operation in your
expression, you may find it more readable to include explicit parentheses to
force the operations to occur in a particular sequence instead of relying on
the default precedence order (which is the same as general math).

In your case of just adding fields, no parentheses are needed of course.

Doug