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Nelson wrote: >I have a procedure that substrings bytes out of file records based on field types, sizes, >location, etc defined in the system catalog. The target of the substring is a char >field, of course. With other fields, I can do a movel into the proper data type, but >Floating point is not allowed on the movel opcode. How can I get the data in the alpha >field into a floating point field? Is there any way to "cast" the subst results into >something other than an alpha field? How about overlapping ds subfields? Float isn't allowed on the MOVEs since char to numeric moves do sort of a conversion from char to numeric. In other words, if the MOVEs allowed float, it probably wouldn't do what you wanted anyways. Cheers! Hans Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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