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  3. March 2009

Re: Using an Expression to control a FOR loop

Arthur Marino wrote:
And I don't believe (PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG) I can code " ColDta
= %Editc(%Dec(%Trim(ColDta):VARIABLE_WIDTH:VARIABLE_DECPOS):'X')".

That was my understanding too. The V6R1 ILE RPG reference states:
> %DEC(numeric or character expression{:precision:decimal places})
> When the first parameter is a numeric or character expression,
> the result has precision digits and decimal places decimal
> positions. The precision and decimal places must be numeric
> literals, named constants that represent numeric literals, or
> built-in functions with a numeric value known at compile-time.
> Note:
> %LEN and %DECPOS cannot be used directly for the second and
> third parameters of %DEC or %DECH, even if the values of %LEN
> and %DECPOS are constant. See Figure 219 for an example using the
> length and decimal positions of a variable to control %DEC and %DECH.

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