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I was wrestling the other day with an XML-INTO problem that at root was caused by the fact that the character to numeric conversion BIFs (%Dec/$Float/%Int) treat a blank field as an error when it really should be treated as zero.
So - I've created an RFE to ask IBM to change this behaviour as it affects not just the BIFs but also XML-INTO and DATA-INTO and makes logic far more convoluted than it need to be.
Please vote for it!
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=126632 <
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=126632>
I have also toyed with the idea of asking for an additional parameter to be specified for these BIFs to set a default value to be used if an error is triggered.
e.g. value = %Dec( string: 7: 2: -1); // Default to -1 if string is not valid numeric.
Thoughts anyone?
Jon Paris
www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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