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I agreed that O extender is probably not very useful and I can eaily live
without it. But there is one feature in MOVE opcode (I've not used this
opcode for years now) that I sometime wish I can have that in free form.
The feature that I'm speaking of is its ability to move a char string into a
numeric field. Well, yes, I can use %dec, %int... to achive that. But
those bif requires actual decimal point to be present in the char string for
it to work correctly.

Now look at the code below. The value of the rate would be 12345.67, which
is what I wanted, after executing the MOVE statement.:
D char7 S 7a inz('1234567')
D rate S 7 2

C move char7 rate
. . .

to do this samething in free form, I'll have to do some calculations, not
bad, but it always makes me think that the program is trying to perform some
calculation that is related to some sort of a business requirement.

So to achieve the samething as MOVE opcode, I've to do this:
rate = %dec(char7 :7 :0) / 100
or
rate = %int(char7) / 100

and if the char7 happens to contain the value of blank, the above code will
blow up. MOVE opcode, on the other hand, will set the rate to 0.00. Oh,
how I miss the MOVE ...... :)


"Scott Klement" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mailman.17546.1291313969.2702.rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I agree that this O extender is probably not worth doing. As others have
pointed out, you can solve this problem using %subst or %replace, even if
the code isn't quite as elegant as we might want.

And how often does someone need to do something like this? I do a _ton_
of string manipulation of all sorts, but almost never need something like
this where data has to be both left-justified and right-justified in the
same field. Indeed, I can't think of any reason why someone would need
something like this -- although Pete obviously needs it, it might be the
only time he ever will.

On 12/1/2010 7:50 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
I suppose there could be an extender, say O for Overlay, for EVAL and
EVALR, not to pad the remainder with blanks. That idea has been kicking
around for a long time, but there is a perceived lack of general
usefulness for this feature. Notwithstanding this current case.




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