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

Operation codes from the manual and the results returned

* The multiplication operation is used to multiply two numeric values.

/ The division operation is used to divide two numeric values.

** The exponentiation operation is used to raise a number to the power of
another. For example, the value of 2**3 is 8.

= The equality operation returns '1' if the two operands are equal, and '0'
if not.

<> The inequality operation returns '0' if the two operands are equal, and
'1' if not.

The greater than operation returns '1' if the first operand is greater

than the second.

= The greater than or equal operation returns '1' if the first operand is

greater or equal to the second.

< The less than operation returns '1' if the first operand is less than the
second.

<= The less than or equal operation returns '1' if the first operand is less
or equal to the second.

AND
The logical and operation returns '1' if both operands have the value of
indicator '1'.

OR
The logical or operation returns '1' if either operand has the value of
indicator '1'.

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Subject: Re: What is the ** in an eval for?

I believe you but I haven't been able to find any reference to ** in the
RPGLE manual for V5R4.



On 7/28/2010 10:13 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

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.)