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At 05:40 PM 8/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
CHGPF??


CHGPF will handle the field size difference, when the fields are of a like type (alpha to alpha or dec to dec) but not alpha to dec.

Al




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> Subject:      changing two fields in a file
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> I am thinking this is easy but I have been able to really complicate it.
>
> I have a file where the record has 110 fields in it.   Two of those fields
> are to be changed, one from 1 alpha to 4 numeric, the other from 1 numeric
> to 4 numeric.
>
> This seems to me to be a 15 line program but it isn't turning out that
> way.  Any ideas of a good fast algorithym to do it?
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> tnx
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