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  3. September 2012

Re: Extract some numeric fields from a string

On 9/11/2012 10:50 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:
I would use %SCAN to locate the field... then add the length of the field
name + 1 to the scan result.

Then I'd use atof.

result = atof(p) ;


Don't use atof; it returns a float result which might lose some accuracy, especially if you forget to use EVAL(H).

Use %DECH instead; it returns a decimal result with no loss of accuracy.

result = %DECH(p : 63: 31);

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