Re: Converting a packed field to alpha -- MIDRANGE-L

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How about a sample of the code?


In <364A26D5.8FD78A53@ix.netcom.com>, on 11/11/98 
   at 07:07 PM, Michael A Franchino <Frick@ix.netcom.com> said:

>to anyone:

>I need to convert packed data in a file to an alpha value... Basically I
>am reading in a record from a database file and populating an array with
>values. This works fine for alpha or zoned fields, but I can't do this
>for packed. I am using the file's file field definition to substring out
>each individual field.. I know that I have seen someone asking for this
>in the past, but I can't find that message anymore..

>THanks in advance


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