RE: Left justify numeric field

Because the OP asked for it to be left-justified.

If there's a way to do that without converting a numeric field to alphanumeric, I'm not aware.

-Kurt

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Campin
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:33 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Left justify numeric field

Just curious. If this is a numeric field printing on a report, why just use an edit code on the report to suppress the leading zeros?


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

grrr***

and the compiler likes:

wField = %trim(%editc(nField: 'N'));

(I just happen to prefer the left-side minus sign.)

On 8/13/2013 4:15 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

I like:

wField = %trim(%editc(nField: 'N));


On 8/13/2013 3:42 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

All,
I have a numeric field 0070000123 that I need to remove the leading

zeros

and left justify for printing.

Does anyone have a simple routine to do this?

Thanks,

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