String to DECFLOAT format

girish.shekki · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:38 pm Post subject: String to DECFLOAT format

Hi,

How can i convert a character string to its equivalent DECFLOAT format? I need to do this in assembler or C. There is example in DB2 Administration guide as shown below

Internal Format : D8F77D00000000000C
DFP Format : 222C000000001E80
String Representation : +7.500

But how this is done is not given. I need to convert string representation to internal format representaion.

Thanks,

PeterHolland · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:25 pm Post subject:

http://www.rkaiser.de/rkaiser/DecFPClass/DecFPClass.html

enrico-sorichetti

when somebody decide to use the DECFLOAT format
did the same specify properly the requirements and the tools to be used?

for complete info on the subject google for
mike cowlishaw decimal artithmetic
which will take You here
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/