Need to calulate with a (10 dig) 6.000.569.885 number.

-SET &REPEadfTMEAMT = 100 + 1;
This gives me the correct result 101.

-SET &REPEadfTMEAMT = 6000569885 + 1;
This gives me some asterix(****).
SET COUNTWIDTH = ON does not seem to apply to amper variables..

Must be quite simple... but ... no clue ..atm.

thanks in advance for any idea.
Marcus

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Kathryn Henning>,

Try this :

-SET &REPEadfTMEAMT = 6000569885;

DEFINE FILE CAR
ORG_REPEadfTMEAMT /D11 = &REPEadfTMEAMT;
REPEadfTMEAMT /D11 = &REPEadfTMEAMT + 1;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT ORG_REPEadfTMEAMT
      REPEadfTMEAMT
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1;
END

Use DEFINE FUNCTIONS:

DEFINE FUNCTION ADD(operand/D20,addition/D20)
ADD/A20 =FTOA(operand+addition,'(D20c)','A20');
END
-RUN
-SET &REPEadfTMEAMT = ADD(6000569885, 1);
-TYPE &REPEadfTMEAMT

When arithmetic is requested, internally changed to double precision, so before it is perfomed, changed the results to alpha.

-SET &REPEadfTMEAMT1 = 6000569885; 
-SET &REPEadfTMEAMTA=FTOA((&REPEadfTMEAMT1+1),'(D10)','A13');
-TYPE &REPEadfTMEAMTA 

Nice... I like that...

thank you-

very much !!

If I remember my first year computer science correctly, they gave us an exercise where the object was to add a series of extremely long numbers - and the answer was to turn them into alpha just as is suggested here ...