Re: Using an Expression to control a FOR loop -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Using an Expression to control a FOR loop
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:36:41 -0400
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Douglas Handy wrote:

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Out of curiousity, how then are you handling negative numbers?

Doug, the X edit code preserves the sign. It's the Z edit code that removes the sign.

%EDITC(-12345:'X') = '1234N'
%EDITC(-12345:'Z') = '12345'

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RE: Using an Expression to control a FOR loop , Arthur Marino

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