RE:Converting a packed field to alpha

One low tech way is to have bunch of standalone fields, each with a packed
field length.
Ya know, 1-3 packed,   1-5 packed, 1-7 packed.  Find the length from the
DSPFFD
and MOVE the parsed length  into the appropriate packed field.  
Then Z-ADD it to a Zoned field of the  same length.  Then move the Zoned
field to the array.

I did this 15 years ago on the Sys/38,  Kinda  of a dynamic Display PF
utility subfile 
showing the field name and it's value record by record.

Not hard.    Probably slicker way of doing it now if I thought about it but
this one 
worked and didn't break.

John Carr
EdgeTech
Have Classes,   Will Travel

Message text written by INTERNET:MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
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to anyone:

I need to convert packed data in a file to an alpha value... Basically I
am reading in a record from a database file and populating an array with
values. This works fine for alpha or zoned fields, but I can't do this
for packed. I am using the file's file field definition to substring out
each individual field.. I know that I have seen someone asking for this
in the past, but I can't find that message anymore..

THanks in advance
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