Re: current best practice" packed/11/4 to char/5 -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: current best practice" packed/11/4 to char/5
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 17:55:45 -0400
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On 2019-05-27 3:46 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:

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But they both perform fast enough and %int(ellevenFour) doesn't have all those hard-coded values which make the %dec version a bit more fragile if the size of the "ellevenFour" variable changes.

Thinking more about this, %INT may also be fragile if the size of ellevenFour changes so there are more than about 18 integer places.

So using %CHAR(%DEC(ellevenFour : 63 : 0)) would be the safest.

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