Re: Rounding with assignment operators

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OMG, are you kidding me?  I never tried that because it didn't "look 
right" to my poor dinosaur brain. And that's why I reach out to the 
list... :)

Thanks, Kevin!


On 7/1/2019 10:56 AM, Kevin Bucknum wrote:
> You can't get rid of the eval, but you can do something like Eval(h) Quantity *= perUnit;
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2019 10:43 AM
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
> Subject: Rounding with assignment operators
>
> I love assignment operators (+=, *=, etc.) especially as variable names get longer.  But the one thing I'm having problems with is rounding.  I haven't found a way around the issue.  The following two statements are
> equivalent:
>
>     Quantity = Quantity * perUnit;
>     Quantity *= perUnit;
>
> Yay!  But how do I do this:
>
>     eval(h) Quantity = Quantity * perUnit;
>
> I don't see any way to change that particular line to use the assignment operator.  Has anybody run into this, and is there a workaround?