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Re: Using %dec to validate a field contains only numeric characters

On 2/10/2011 9:34 AM, Alan Shore wrote:

I have a 13 character field that can contain a number of any length with
leading and/or trailing blanks
I am pretty sure that I have used %dec to validate that the field contains
numeric data and will give an error if a blank is somewhere other than
trailing or leading

Often enough, the goal isn't only to validate that a number exists, but
to use that number for something. I've been using Barbara Morris'
GETNUM for many years because it converts character fields containing
decimal points, commas, dollar signs and negative signs.

I have long since lost the original article where it was published but
fortunately it's in the wiki:
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Character_to_number
--buck

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