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For numeric to character conversion you could also consider %char

e.g. eval CharVar = %char(NumVar')

%char will convert numeric by:

remove leading zeros
display decimal point
not display commas
add leading negative sign if applicable

so if the format of numvar is say packed(5,2) then a value of -456.22 could
be returned.

For alpha fields, use %trimr to remove trailing spaces and use %len to
return the trimmed length:

e.g.

eval TrimCharVar = %trimr(CharVar)

eval Length = %len(%trimr(CharVar))

Cheers

Keith

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