Re: Why you shouldn't be afraid to use VARCHAR in RPGLE
Barbara Morris <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.as400.rpg |
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| Organization | IBM |
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On 2025-12-11 3:50 p.m., Daniel Gross wrote: > As RPG and C differ in a lot of spaces - I would suggest, to not make it so "non obvious" as the ternary operator in C - just make it a %BIF - e.g.: > > var = %IF( a = b : trueVal : falseVal ); > ... That's what IBM suggested they would probably do in one of the answers to this Idea: "RPG - Conditional (Ternary) Operator (?:) in EVAL operation" https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1417 -- Barbara -- This is the RPG programming on IBM i (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request-+hD5IHI5Xscn3HwCXmMcX9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at https://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. Please contact support-FMtJrHiV//lnDLsaKlm4mFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org for any subscription related questions.