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Bob Cozzi wrote this:
>The %DEC built-in function will blow up on this conversion. Do not use it
>for that. But if you are on V5R2, you could use %INT instead of atoll() as
>I suggested earlier, but still do the %SUBST and CHECK opcodes first.

and then this:
>%DEC only works if the value is pretty clean; otherwise, you get a runtime
>error message. Even leading blanks can cause a problem with %DEC.
> 

%DEC and %INT have the same rules with respect to "clean".  Do you have
an example where leading blanks cause a problem with %DEC?


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