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Hi Buzz

Use zero (0) instead of ampersand (&) - just tried it and it worked - this was mentioned in a recent thread, so I remembered it!

Vern

On 3/17/2016 3:09 PM, Buzz Fenner wrote:
In the Built-In Function %char, there is an edit code, '*iso&' which, according to the manual will take a timestamp data type and edit it by stripping out all special characters, leaving you with a string populated with numbers. Here's the example:

DCL-S timestamp6 TIMESTAMP INZ(Z'1997-02-03-12.45.59.123456');
DCL-S result VARCHAR(100);
result = %CHAR(timestamp6 : *iso&);
// result = '19970203124559123456'
I cannot get this to work as advertised. Has anyone else attempted the use of this edit code?
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