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Use %Dec and surround that with a MONITOR block to trap any errors in conversion.


Jon Paris

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On Apr 13, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Hoteltravelfundotcom <hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

HI I Have to move a data value (weight of an item) which is char 11 into a
numeric 7 02
field.

I have tried eval and move and they will not compile.

how am i to redefine the char field to a numeric? danger of data having bad
data should be
considered, but at this time i wanted to test adding such rows first.
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