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Re: Decimal Place in Character String

On 2020-03-03 3:10 p.m., dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/03/2020
02:48:17 PM:
If you code DECPREC(63) in your CTL-OPT, you'll get the decimal
positions in the output of %CHAR.


Thanks, Barbara. That worked but then it gives me way too many
digits to the right of the decimal place. Is there a way to specify the
number of decimal positions I want using a non-constant variable?


I can only think of using %DEC inside the %CHAR.

To get 5 decimal places:
result = %char(%dec(packed_data / d_shift : 63 : 5)) ;

You could put something smaller than 63, but using the maximum works ok.


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