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  3. December 2008

Re: Converting a string to a number in RPG

This:
D wNum8 8 2 D wNum2 2s 0 D wChar 8 inz(' 123.45 ') C eval wNum8 = %dec(wChar: 8: 2) C eval wChar10 = %editc(wNum8: 'J') C wChar10 dsply C eval *inlr = *on Gave this result: DSPLY 123.45


James Lampert wrote:
Joep Beckeringh wrote:
Have you considered %dec or %dech?

At first, I thought you were onto something. Then I tried it.

These functions take numeric expressions, not strings containing representations of numbers.

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