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  3. August 2004

RE: Help w/ Packed Decimal

> the following sting for a 4 byte number : "0000000C", which I
> understand
> to be 12, but I know the number should be 1.

Bob,
I think you will find this is a packed decimal number zero.
Hopefully you can get the record layout.
After doing the EBCDIC to ASCII translation, you need to know the data type.

In the field above, -999.99 would be 0099999D and if zoned decimal would be
F0 F0 F9 F9 F9 F9 D9
You might also see "00 00 00 0C" as "00 00 00 0F" from the S/390 in the same
file.

Unless you know where the digits are and where the decimal is...

Mark Villa in Summerville SC

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