Re: Processing a List from a command -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Processing a List from a command
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:31:43 -0500
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On 2017-01-18 5:22 AM, j.beckeringh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

...
As Buck already told you, don't use '2B 0'. That would be a binary field
of 2 digits, which translates to 1 byte. ...

2B uses 2 bytes. Binary with 1-4 digits is 2 bytes, and with 5-9 digits is 4 bytes. It's only RPG's integer (I) and unsigned integer types (U) that can have 1 byte.

So 2B is still the required 2-byte binary, but it can only hold values up to 99, which might not work if the code is copied for some other command.

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Re: Processing a List from a command , j . beckeringh

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