Re: Decimal Place in Character String

On Mar 6, 2020, at 12:39 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/06/2020
12:35:24 PM:

This... to me feels like copy-pasting code. And the more different
d_shift values you have to support, the worse this becomes.

I do suspect this *might* be the best-performing approach. Even if

it

is, I don't think the performance gains are worth the

verbosification

(and calcification) of the code.

So are you saying that you would NOT like to see a service
procedure similar to the following [SELECT with 15 WHEN branches,
plus fallback] to accomplish this?

Correct. I would have rather seen the string processing logic as the
guts of the service procedure.

Well, I would rather have seen IBM create %DEC and %DECH to accept
true variable data for the precision and scale parameters. ;-)


Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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