Re: truncating a decimal value in /Free (Hijacked & Solved...the hijacked that is) -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: truncating a decimal value in /Free (Hijacked & Solved...the hijacked that is)
From: "Buzz Fenner" <bfenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:04:12 -0600
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On Jan 2013 15:43:18 Jeff Young wrote:

Try this:

D Indicator_DS DS Based(Indicator_Ptr)
D Indicator_3032 3A overlay(indicator_ds : 30)

D Indicator_Ptr * Inz(%Addr(*In)

/Free
Indicator_3032 = '010';

John,

While trying to cobble something together, I finally found the articles Jon
Paris wrote on indicator arrays and a code example very closely resembles
what you've shown here. However, he had his overlay defined as logical (N),
but once I changed it to character, the /Free code worked!

<Yakov Smirnoff>RPG...what a language!</Yakov Smirnoff>

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