RE: Beginner needs help w/ decimal field to text field

You might want to look at CPYTOIMPF to see if it can be used to create the
file you want.  If not, I would strongly recommend that you use RPG IV to
create this program (or at least create little callable programs to do
functions like this for the main program).  RPG IV makes this so easy to do
useing %editc and it's string handling capabilities that it will definitely
make the effort to figure it out worth the time.  And we are always here to
help answer RPG IV questions.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Waugh [SMTP:jwaugh@collectcorp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:06 AM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Beginner needs help w/ decimal field to text field
> 
> I have a decimal field... 9 digits, 2 decimals.  I need to move it into a
> character field of 14 characters, complete with negative sign and decimal.
> I need it to be left justified and padded with blanks.  Examples:
> 
> 9.32 (00000000932)   should become   '9.32          '
> -456.34 should become '-456.34       '
> 
> 
> I saw a discussion about this recently, but the solutions given were to
> use the edit code functions available in ILE and I am using RPG/400.
> 
> 
> I'm pulling data from a database (externally described) and trying to
> create a tab delimited ASCII file out of it for one of our clients.  After
> I have managed to obtain this value, I will be concatenating a horizontal
> tab to the end of it (hence I need 14 characters - an extra one for the
> tab in case the number happens to be 11 digits, and negative, occupying 13
> characters).  I will then be concatentating this 14 character string to
> the rest of a string I've already built up, which will then finally be
> written as a line in a text file.
> 
> (this is something that will be created often, *ideally* not by me, so
> using PC tools to make the resulting file tab delimited is not an option)
> 
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason Waugh
> Systems Development
> COLLECTCORP, INC.
> (416)935-2883
> 
> 
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