Re: truncating a decimal value in /Free -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: truncating a decimal value in /Free
From: Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:44:18 -0500
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Ken,

There aren't many situations where it is desired to truncate the high
order digits.

Sure there are! How do you think those one-line date transformations to/from MMDDYY and YYMMDD worked in RPG II? <g,d&r>

mmddyy MULT 10000.01 yymmdd
yymmdd MULT 100.0001 mmddyy

(Did I just say those were desirable?? Please, I detest those but high order digit truncation is why they worked…)

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