On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:29:16 -0500 "Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
:>On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:09:45 +0100, Thomas Berg
:><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>>...
:>>> ... REXX sees 2 equal numbers in the first case and 2 different
:>>> strings in the second case.
:>>No. REXX sees 1 string in each case ("00E0 00E8" and "00F0 00F8").
:>>Try x = 00E0 + 00E8 and y = 00F0 + 00F8
:>>You will get an error in the latter case.
:>>...
:>Ok. I worded that very poorly. Assuming that the exec is going to
:>parse its parm string into hex arguments, it had better take care to
:>handle those args as strings wherever they might be misconstrued
:>as numbers.
If you want them to be treated as hex arguments, use C2X. Otherwise
000E0 == 00E0
will return not equal.
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