Re: Converting Char to Numeric in CL -- MIDRANGE-L

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Chuck is right no conversion needed.

If you DO want to convert a variable in that manner however the correct method is

CHGVAR &COPIES %DEC(&COPYCHR 1 0)

Here the 1 indicates total number of places and 0 indicates number of decimal places.

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On 11/7/2014 2:24 PM, CRPence wrote:

On 07-Nov-2014 11:55 -0600, Mohan Eashver wrote:

I have a character variable with numeric data.
This holds number of copies that will be used on the OVRPRTF
command.

DCL VAR(&COPYCHR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1) VALUE('3')
DCL VAR(&COPIES) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(1 0) VALUE(1)

CHGVAR VAR(&COPIES) VALUE(&COPYCHR)
OVRPRTF FILE(WGTMNFP) MAXRCDS(*NOMAX) HOLD(*YES) COPIES(&COPIES)

<<SNIP>>

There is no reason to perform that conversion; thus no reason also,
for the Decimal variable. Just use the Character variable as the value
specified on the COPIES() parameter:

DCL VAR(&COPYCHR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1) VALUE('3')

OVRPRTF FILE(WGTMNFP) MAXRCDS(*NOMAX) HOLD(*YES) COPIES(&COPYCHR)

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