RE: Extract some numeric fields from a string -- RPG400-L

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That's good advice. Thanks, Barbara.

Dennis Lovelady
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On 9/12/2012 5:53 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

I didn't see anything in the original post that implied the kinds of
precision "issues" you are discussing will be a problem. ...

I think you're right about the float-precision limit of around 18
digits not being a problem, given that the values seemed to be quite
small.

But it's always important to use EVAL(H) when assigning float to
decimal, since even with small values it can happen that the binary
float representation will be a tiny bit less than the real value,
rather than a tiny bit more.
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