Re: convert of character passed param to numeric

how did you pass the parm to test your program ?
if is from the command entry display... are you enclosing the number in
quotes and formatted with leading zeroes ?




From: Michael Schutte <mschutte369@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/03/2016 15:55
Subject: Re: convert of character passed param to numeric
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what is the value of pono in debug. This will likely lead you to as why.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You'll want to always use a MONITOR block around the %dec BIF to trap

these

errors.

http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg052009-story02.html

http://enskill.com/faqs/using-dec-to-convert-character-to-numeric/

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Hoteltravelfundotcom <
hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am passing a numeric order num as a char
c *entry plist
c parm pono 12

I then convert here
c eval ponum = %Dec(pono:12:0)

statement 000413 performed a conversion from character to numeric

using

data
that was in error.
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