Re: RPG III

Wayne McAlpine wrote:

It doesn't normally but what you're concatenating is the result field VAR10R (all blanks) with VAR10 ('116769 '). With the blanks extender specified (variable L with a value of 4), you wind up with four leading blanks in VAR10R (' 116769') and that works with the MOVE.

jstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

AHH!!

Now that looks like it'll work.  And, much cleaner than the Array method.

Wayne,  I didn't know that the CAT did a Right Justification?


Jeff Stevens
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You need a right-adjusted character field to move to your numeric field.

If the number of digits can vary, you will need to get the length of the string of digits first. This code will do what you want:

C ' ' CHEKRVAR10 LEN 40 C 10 SUB LEN L 40 C CAT VAR10:L VAR10R 10 C MOVE VAR10R VAR7 70

Douglas Palme wrote:

I am in the process of modifying an RPG III program that I am not

permitted

to convert to ILE.

One of the fields is a 10 character field that only contains numeric

numbers

and will never have more than seven digits..I know I could change the

field

length to 7 but I was told no to that as well as it might blow up other
programs.

Here is the delimna, I need to move the value to a 7 digit numeric. It

is

possible that it can have anywhere from 1 to seven digits.



Example:



'116769    ' - Charcter value



I have a new field defined as 7,0

When I do a move on it it shows up as 1167690 and a movel gives me

7690000.

Suggestions? Hints?  Converting it is not an option.



Douglas

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