Thanks for all the help so far. Things are looking good. I've
reached the point, now, where I need to transform a zoned-decimal number
with up to 31 digits of precision and up to 15 digits for scale with an
external sign and an explicit decimal point into a packed number that is
properly aligned.
I can handle the external sign easily enough. But I can only see
the long, hard way of handling the explicit decimal -- which is, looping
through byte by byte, counting the existing decimal places, padding with
zeroes as needed, and removing the explicit decimal point before using PKA
to pack and ORing a negative sign if needed.
Anybody know any assembler techniques for making this easier? For
example, given the following character string as input, what is the
easiest way to turn it into a packed number with 4 implied decimal places?
-345.67
Finally, to head some of you off at the pass, I can't use vector
instructions as I don't have acces to the vector facility. Also, note
that the packed work field I'm using for all my decimal conversions is
defined as follows.
PWORK16 DS PL16
Sincerely,
Dave Clark
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