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  3. March 2003

RE: text to numeric BIF

Hi Mike,

>I got some good suggestions, but haven't really had the time 
>to look into these.  So for the time being, I'm doing the 
>dreaded MOVE to move the text to a signed numeric, then 
>a Z-ADD to get the value from the signed field to
>a packed.  Very, very ugly.

The FAQ has a function you can use.  http://faq.midrange.com search for
'character to numeric'.  I don't think you need the intermediate signed
field.  MOVE should work just fine to the packed numeric variable.
  --buck

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