Re: Decimal Place in Character String -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Decimal Place in Character String
From: Nick <nicola.brion@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 22:18:56 +0100
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Il 06/03/2020 17:30, Joep Beckeringh via RPG400-L ha scritto:

When you use d_shift just to shift decimal positions, it is much safer to multiply by .01 than to divide by 100.

Also, remember that .01 is 1/(10^NumDec) ...

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