Re: Decimal Place in Character String

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That makes a lot of sense.  And in that case, maybe it would be better 
to put the precision as optional parameters on the conversions?

    formattedValue = %CHAR( myNumericExpression: wDigits: wDecimals);

It might take a little more work to shoehorn it into %editc since 
there's already an optional parameter for currency, but something like this:

    formattedValue = %EDITC( myNumericExpression: 'L': *CURSYM: 
wDigits: wDecimals);

And if you didn't want a currency symbol, just put the placeholder *PREC:

    formattedValue = %EDITC( myNumericExpression: 'L': *PREC: wDigits: 
wDecimals);

Because basically you're just trying to resize the field for formatting, 
so why not do it right in the formatting?




On 3/6/2020 2:27 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
> 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. ;-)