Re: DEC CONVERSION ERROR

["Roger Harman" <RHarman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just for grins, have you tried splitting the bifs into 2-3 separate
lines and checking the results in debug at each step?

 

> > > booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx 01/10/2008 12:14:05 PM >>>
As someone whom I respect taught me years ago, we don't care about 
efficiency, but rather effectiveness.

Yes, one line looks niftier, but as has been well demonstrated, in this 
case it creates confusion which can only lead to later chaos and doubt.

As a learning exercise this is a wonderful dalliance, but if left as one

line it becomes a time bomb waiting to cause grief in the future.

In my opinion.

Jay Vaughn wrote:
> yes, but so should one effecient line of free code...
>  
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>  
> Jay Vaughn
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Craig Jacobsen" <CraigJacobsen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:59:12 -0500
> Subject: RE: DEC CONVERSION ERROR
>
>
> Wouldn't a Data Structure work?
>
> Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jay Vaughn
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:48 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: DEC CONVERSION ERROR
>
> now this one is giving me trouble where there is a decimal point
involved...
> The target for a numeric operation is too small to hold the result.
>
> MMSS = %DEC(%SUBST(%EDITC(WKSCRTMIN :'X'):5:4):4:2);
>
> MMSS = 4s2
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jay Vaughn
> Senior I5 Programmer/Analyst
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Lim Hock-Chai" <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:21:11 -0600
> Subject: RE: DEC CONVERSION ERROR
>
>
> I meant to say "your code will fail or become unpredictable if value
of
> WKSCRTMIN is less than or equal to 999 .
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:14 AM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: DEC CONVERSION ERROR
>
> %char will suppress leading 0.  Your code will fail or become
> unpredictable if value of WKSCRTMIN is less than 9999.  You probably
> want to consider changing the statement to be like below:
> HHHH = %DEC(%SUBST(%EDITC(WKSCRTMIN :'X'):1:4):4:0); 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay Vaughn
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:20 AM
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: DEC CONVERSION ERROR
>
> The target for a numeric operation is too small to hold the result.
>
> HHHH = %DEC(%SUBST(%CHAR(WKSCRTMIN):1:4):4:0);
>
> HHHH = 4P0 AND WKSCRTMIN = 8P0
>
> Can't figure out why I am getting this error.
>
>
>
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jay Vaughn
> Senior I5 Programmer/Analyst
> RateWatch
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