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  3. March 2020

Re: Decimal Place in Character String

I was going to say it would be impossible for RPG to support variables for the precision and scale parameters for %DEC and %DECH because RPG is a compiled language, and it has to know the precision of numeric operands.

But as I was writing, I realized it would actually be possible as long as the result of the %DEC or %DECH wasn't being used in a numeric calculation, or anything else where the precision and scale were needed at compile time.

On 2020-03-06 2:55 p.m., Jon Paris wrote:
So write up an RFE asking for that enhancement.

I suspect many would vote for it.


On Mar 6, 2020, at 12:39 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
...
Well, I would rather have seen IBM create %DEC and %DECH to accept
true variable data for the precision and scale parameters. ;-)



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