Re: Converting a string to a number in RPG

James,

If you would have bothered to read the documentation for V5R3 (the release you wrote you were targeting), you would have known that the first argument can be a character, numeric, date, time or timestamp expression and that for a character expression the second and third parameter are required.

Joep Beckeringh


James HH. Lampert schreef:

No, they take character strings alright. Using your original examples:

D DecField S 5 2

C Eval MyDecField = %Dec( '123.45' : 5 : 2 ) C Eval MyDecField = %Dec( ' 1.23' : 5 : 2 ) C Eval MyDecField = %Dec( '1.23' : 5 : 2 ) C Eval MyDecField = %Dec( '1.2' : 5 : 2 ) C Eval MyDecField = %Dec( '123' : 5 : 2 )

Passing a character string as the first argument to %dec doesn't even compile. It just gives an "invalid argument" message. As I said, I did actually try it.

It might work in a compiler more recent than the V4R2 compiler I tried it on, but I didn't care to bother hooking up to the IBM test box while just sticking my nose into the office on a Sunday.

If it does work on something post-V4R2, what revision does it come in at?

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JHHL