Re: Alternatives to MOVEL - just curious

I agree that this works - but it's like the old multiplication technique to shift date formats. It was a trick, and prone to strange looks until we knew the trick.

As is the division technique. And there you may have to rely on precision rules of the calculation.

Of course, as Trevor Briggs said - documentation - comments, right? :)

Vern

On 12/9/2013 12:20 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

Num4 = Num6 * .01;

On 12/9/2013 10:31 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Hi y'all

I'm looking at some code - the purpose is to put the 1st 4 digits of a
6-digit variable into a 4-digit numeric variable.

It is being done with the MOVEL opcode now.

I'm wondering about efficient alternative methods. One I can think of is
to use a data structure -

dcl-ds dsMoveL qualified;
num4 zoned(4);
num6 zoned(6) pos(1);
end-ds;

Anything simpler? Better performing?

I hope the syntax is right!! But you get the idea, right?

Vern