Re: Decimal Place in Character String

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/05/2020
05:14:34 PM:

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.

Yes, but you had to hard-code the number of decimals. Since I'm
writing a generic routine that will have a variable number of decimals
from caller to caller, I need to be able to specify a variable number of
decimals. %DEC will not allow that.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark