Re: Character to Numeric can it be cleaned up

Bill,

Unfortunately, %DEC is not fully matured on V5R1 and only accept values known 
at compilte time (read: hard coded values). This BIF is therefore rather 
useless at this OS level.

And to think of it: this BIF (and its cousins) were developed to dump MOVE in 
/free. (sic!)

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.

P.S. I am on V5R1 and discovered this the hard way, too. 

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On 14-8-03 at 11:49 Bill Hopkins wrote:

>I was wondering if can I do this on v5r1 or am I stuck with 'C' functions 
>and procedures (that do 50 times more than I need on this).   
>
>Eval       CHAR1     =      %editc((%dec(CHAR1) + NUM1):'4') 
>
>Just wanted to add a number to a character field with a number in it and 
>no decimals in it's value. Result in character.