Re: negative numbers

The "easiest way"  I have seen is to output the numeric data with an edit
code in the format you want.  There is an edit code now for left-side
minus sign I believe.  

In <CB727DD460D8D111847F0060940A1DD20218CB@SOLOMON>, on 09/04/98 
   at 02:48 PM, "Scott, Shadrach" <sscott@hiu.edu> said:


>I am creating net.data macros using RPG. Every thing to Net.data is a
>string. So when I return integers I am moving the data into a character
>field. If the number is negative I am getting a weird string. Example
>-50.93 is being returned as 509L or -400.00 is returned as 4000}. What is
>the easiest way to create a normal string pattern from a negative
>integer. 

>Thanks 
>Shadrach Scott
>sscott@hiu.edu

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