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  3. December 2005

Field Conversion In cobol from character to numeric

Dear all,
          I think this doubt is very similar to that of shabbir .
I am a novice to COBOL/400 programming and I have a very basic 
    doubt.
I am trying to pass a character variable as parameter to a COBOL 
    pgm
and in the procedure division I want to convert this character to 
    a numeric
               data type.
               In RPG I remember we could do a MOVE A  B without any error
even if A is a character variable with length (say 4) and B is a 
    numeric
               variable of attribute (4 ,0).
                 For eg. suppose A = '1234'
move A B -> in RPG would have resulted in B to have a value 1234.On the contrary the same operation would result in a dec 
      data
                error in COBOL.Can anybody help me do this in COBOL.
    Thanks in anticipation,
    Regards,
    shijith

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