Re: Character to Decimal

Here's another way (untested of course):

0464.00  *  replace trailing blanks in amtA with leading zeros
0465.00 c                   eval      amtA = %trim(amtA)  
0466.00 c                   eval      x = %scan(' ':amtA)  
0467.00 c                   if        x > 1  
0468.00 c                   eval      amtA = %subst('000000000000':1:13-x) 
 
0469.00 c                             + %subst(amtA:1:x-1)  
0470.00 c                   else  
0471.00 c                   eval      amtA = '0000000000.00'  
0472.00 c                   endif  





Colin Thorpe <Colin@IBS-PUBLIC-SERVICES.CO.UK>
Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com
08/17/00 10:11 AM
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Hi all,

I am trying to take a character field (10A) containing something like
123.45bbbbb,
And move it into a numeric field (12,2) 0000000123.45.

The character field may or may not contain a decimal point.
Therefore its value could be from  .01 ==> 9999999999

Some time ago the C function ATOL was mentioned by Hans.

I'm using V3R7 and managed to get his example working fine.

Unfortunately this only returns the integer part of the value.

I also tried ATOF but I'm not sure what the resulting value means. 2235.14
= 1079246848 ?

I can solve this problem using data structures and selects but I'm looking
for an elegant ILE solution.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Colin

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