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It was an ASCII file I uploaded to the 400.  Our OS version is V5R2.

I am not leaving out information on purpose. It's that I'm extremely unfamiliar with the AS/400.

The source data is a string or CHAR.

Vernon Hamberg wrote:

The terms "flat file" and "externally-defined" don't usually go together in my mind, although they can. As Dan asked, what is the data type of the source? Is it a single character field? What is the formula you are using, if you are using a result field? If the source is character and needs to be substrung and then converted to numeric, this is hard in Query/400 but doable-you can use the MICROSECOND function - can tell you more if you need this ugliness. You'd be better off using an SQL query in a *QMQRY, using STRQMQRY with OUTPUT(*OUTFILE). What release of the OS are you at?

Vern


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Glenn Thompson
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