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  3. July 2010

RE: What is the ** in an eval for?

I believe that's "raised to the power of"

So, result = 2 + (3 * 3 * 3 * 3)

The ILE RPG reference manual has a good discussion on operators. I'm just
sayin'...

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C eval result = 2 + (3 **4)

what is the value of result? (I have never seen ** in an eval
statement
before and can't find it mentioned in the reference manual.)


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