RE: Converting string containing packed decimal to numeric decimal

Gerry wondered:
>Is there any references in IBM manuals
>to cvthc?  I've checked the ILE C for
>AS/400 Run-Time Reference but can't find it.

I fired up the V5R1 Infocentre, did a search on CVTHC and came up with it
straight away: The MI Library Reference.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QBJADR00/1.25  Some
might think this is too "whiz bang" for RPG.  I don't have a recent RPG only
example:

E                    ARB         4  1
E                    ARC         4  1
E                    TABBIT  1  16  4   TABCHR  1

C           TESTSR    BEGSR
C                     MOVEA'00000000'*IN,40
C                     TESTB'0'       ARA,X          40
C                     TESTB'1'       ARA,X          41
C                     TESTB'2'       ARA,X          42
C                     TESTB'3'       ARA,X          43
C                     TESTB'4'       ARA,X          44
C                     TESTB'5'       ARA,X          45
C                     TESTB'6'       ARA,X          46
C                     TESTB'7'       ARA,X          47
C* UPPER FOUR BYTES
C                     MOVEL*ZEROS    ARB
C           *IN40     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVE '1'       ARB,1
C                     END
C           *IN41     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVE '1'       ARB,2
C                     END
C           *IN42     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVE '1'       ARB,3
C                     END
C           *IN43     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVE '1'       ARB,4
C                     END
C                     MOVEAARB       CHECK   4
C           CHECK     LOKUPTABBIT    TABCHR         99
C           *IN99     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVELTABCHR    UPPER   1
C                     ELSE
C                     MOVEL'#'       UPPER
C                     END
C* LOWER 4 BYTES
C                     MOVEL*ZEROS    ARC
C           *IN44     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVE '1'       ARC,1
C                     END
C           *IN45     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVE '1'       ARC,2
C                     END
C           *IN46     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVE '1'       ARC,3
C                     END
C           *IN47     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVE '1'       ARC,4
C                     END
C                     MOVEAARC       CHECK   4
C           CHECK     LOKUPTABBIT    TABCHR         99
C           *IN99     IFEQ '1'
C                     MOVELTABCHR    LOWER   1
C                     ELSE
C                     MOVEL'#'       LOWER
C                     END
C                     ENDSR
**
00000
00011
00102
00113
01004
01015
01106
01117
10008
10019
10100 - note these are invalid and set to zero
10110
11000
11010
11100
11110