RE: Decimal Place in Character String

If it could be dynamic, IBM would have built the functionality in the compiler. But no, the MI opcode requires 2 known constants to do the conversion

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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 13:53
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Decimal Place in Character String

It is still not dynamic though Francois. Just self-adjusting.

On Mar 9, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Francois Lavoie <Francois.Lavoie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To make the DECH works, you need to use Constants known at compile
time, not variables

Change the:
%len(packed_data)
by:
dcl-c packed_data_size %Size(packed_data); //Prefered to use Size over Len

Change the:
use_scale
by:
dcl-c use_scale 2; // 2 decimals wanted

then:
return %char(%dech(packed_data/d_shift:packed_data_size:use_scale));

and voilà!



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Subject: Re: Decimal Place in Character String

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote on 03/08/2020
08:49:32 AM:

Anyway, I guess I was a bit too vague about where I think the
compiler could tolerate variables for length and decimals ... after a
bit more pondering, I now think that it would pretty much be limited to %CHAR.

Vote for an RFE on the subject, anyone?

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=1
40864
<http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=
140864>


Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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