Re: Preventing a divide by zero error

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clay - that represents a very old (very, very old) version of the RPG IV language and frankly you are doing yourself no favours using that version to teach yourself the language. Even if a lot of programmers are still writing code like it was 1998.

Try and find a more up-to-date version - it will be worth the effort.


On 2013-06-22, at 10:07 AM, Clay B Carley <cbc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Vern and Jon,
>
> I don't see a version or edition on this book, but it is dated 1998.
>
> In chapter 5, they talk about "traditional RPG arithmetic operations", 
> but also say that section is there just in case you run into those 
> functions later on.
>
> Thanks again to everyone who replied!
>
> Clay Carley
>
> Vern Hamberg wrote:
> > Is it possible that the book assumes you already know RPGIII? 
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > Which version of the book are you using Clay? The I can't think of much if you haven't been taught IF or MONITOR yet.
> >
> >
> > On 2013-06-21, at 10:35 AM, Clay B Carley <cbc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the replies.
> > >
> > > I'll take another look to see what I can do about checking for the zero 
> > > divisor.  The book has not yet covered IF statements; I'll be looking 
> > > more throughly later to see if I missed anything.
> > >
> > > Thanks again,
> > > Clay Carley
> > > Sonic.net/ Sonic Telecom
> > -snip-
> > > > > I'm studying (on my own) RPG IV using Stanley Myers' book, "RPG IV
> > > > > Programming on the AS/400".  I'm doing the programming assignments at
> > > > > the end of Chapter 5, and assignment 5-2 wants "Include the control that
> > > > > prevents a divide-by-zero error".  As far as I can tell, this hasn't
> > > > > been discussed in the book yet; so I don't want to jump ahead with a
> > > > > solution that isn't what they are really looking for.
> >
> >
> > -snip-
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