Re: BINDEC definition question -- RPG400-L

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He probably meant BINDEC instead of BINDED (probably a typo).

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=keywords-bindecdigits-decimal-positions

On 16.03.23 14:53, Mark Murphy wrote:

I just searched the v7.5 RPGLE Reference PDF, and can find nothing related
to BINDED. Can you be more specific?

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 9:10 AM Alan Cassidy <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just now noticed this data definition keyword.

Do I understand correctly that this data type is stored internally as if
it were an integer but when used it shows with the number
of//decimal//places specified?

--Alan Cassidy

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