Re: I thought I knew how %dec worked

Hi Booth
Thanks for your replies
I was looking for an answer of 18.00, and now that I've had my 21st cup of
24oz 7-11 coffee, the brain cells are beginning to stir

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Does he want an answer of 1800.00 or an answer of 180.00? I read it to
mean he wanted it as 180.00



On 11/10/2010 8:41 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:

So you've got this
d Bxwegt s 5 inz('01800')
D Bywegt s 7p 2
*-------------------------------------------------
* Stand Alone Fields - BOTTOM
*-------------------------------------------------

**************************************************
/FREE
Bywegt = %dec(Bxwegt: 7: 2);

*inlr = '1';
return;
/END-FREE

And it doesn't through an error...

But that gives you 1800.00 in bywegt and you wanted 18.00.

%dec() expects explicit decimal points in strings, it doesn't deal
with implied decimals in a string.

You're going to need something like so:

d Bxwegt s 5 inz('01800')
D Bywegt s 5p 2
*-------------------------------------------------
* Stand Alone Fields - BOTTOM
*-------------------------------------------------

**************************************************
/FREE
Bywegt = %dec(Bxwegt: 5: 0) / 100;

*inlr = '1';
return;
/END-FREE

HTH,
Charles




On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Alan Shore<AlanShore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Joep
Its finally sunk in

Sometimes, being a lovable idiot doesn't pay
This is one them
Happy Moron day, to me

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Alan,

The field is not the problem; the parameters to %dec are. If you change
the field to 7p2, you should also change the call to %dec(Bxwegt: 7: 2).

Joep Beckeringh


rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10-11-2010 14:42:14:

Alan Shore


Thanks for your reply Joep
I'm still scratching my head
The field
d Bxwegt s 5 inz('01800')
Is really the value 18.00

I changed the code to
D Bywegt s 7p 2

with the same result

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