RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()

[MWalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Buck, Now it makes perfect sense :-).


Thanks,

Mark


Mark Walter
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Hanover Wire Cloth a div of CCX, Inc.
mwalter@hanoverwire.com
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This is part and parcel of the 'expression' rules for EVAL.
Basically, 'fiscalYr - 1' is an expression.  In order to hold all the
possible digits of the resulting value, the compiler applies some rules to
create an 'intermediate' or 'work' variable.  The %editc() is working
against the work variable.

I don't have the manual reference handy, but it's in the section on numeric
precision in the RPG Reference.