Re: negative numbers

Here's a bit of pseudo code for moving a signed number to a character
string....

/*  num is a defined as 15.5 somewhere in time and space  */

temp := num;

if num < 0 do  /*  if num is negative then do  */
  temp := num * -1  /* flip sign  */
else
  temp := num
endif

/*  at this point temp is the absolute value of num  */

call convert_to_string(temp, char_num)  /* any number > character
                                          conversion routine  */

if num < 0 then do
   char_num = '-' || char_num  /* '-' cat:0 char_num char_num  */
endif


/*  somewhere about here you'll have char_num with the character equiv of
the numeric field with a '-' prefix if it's a negative number  */


Yeah, this is a bit on the the fly and I'm probably missing a few ;'s so
don't shoot me on syntax...

Don in DC

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