Bad arithmetic conversion error while running

vidyasaraswathi · Active User Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 74

Hi,
I executed the following code in TSO 3.4 :

/***REXX*****************************/
SAY 'PLS ENTER A NUMBER'
PULL NUM1
SAY 'NOW ENTER A NUMBER TO ADD TO THE FIRST NUMBER.'
PULL NUM2
SUM = NUM1 + NUM2
SAY 'THE SUM OF THE TWO NUMBERS IS' SUM'.'

I got the following error message:

6 +++ SUM = NUM1 + NUM2
Error running ADD2NUM, line 6: Bad arithmetic conversion
***

Please anyone help me out? What is wrong with this??

Thanks and Regards,
Vidya Bhat

superk

The code works just fine. What did enabling the TRACE option show? I suspect that somehow one of your input values is non-numeric.

vidyasaraswathi · Active User Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 74

Hi superk,
I enabled the trace option and executed this. As you suspected, first number I entered was getting space.
Because, when the message 'PLS ENTER A NUMBER' comes I have to press ENTER key first and then have to enter the number.
Now it worked fine.
Thank you very much.

Vidya bhat

phanirajasekhar · New User Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Chennai

hi

i got that nothing wrong in the code
while entering the second number enter the number in the continuation screen
i.e, after getting the message enter number two press ctrl and then enter the second number

ENTER FIRST NUMBER
3
ENTER NUMBER TWO
***(next screen enter the other num)
5

sum 8

hope you got that

superk

This is a good example of why you should validate that the input variables are numeric before using them in a computation.

MGIndaco · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

I'm in accord with Superk, this kind of error is ordinary...