RE: Decimal Place in Character String -- RPG400-L

Subject: RE: Decimal Place in Character String
From: dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 10:25:59 -0500
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"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/03/2020
12:28:54 AM:

Output string too short?

No, the output is a 256-character variable length string. The
value was -1234567.89. The following was producing -123456789 with
d_shift having a value of 100.

return %char(packed_data / d_shift);

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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