Todd Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've been coding in REXX since 1986 (started on VM). I like to consider >myself somewhat proficient in it. However, this little tidbit ate my lunch >today. I was running through ASID numbers in an IPCS dump. I was testing >my lookup logic with an ASID of zeros, and kept getting incorrect output. >My subroutine kept returning ASID 224 (decimal), and I was expecting it to >fail.
>Can you guess what the problem turned out to be? ;-) I bet it had to do with the fact that you were using "=" rather than "==", so 0E01 = 0000 ... What do I win? ...phsiii (Everybody gets bitten by this one once!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html