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Re: Alpha to Numeric converion issue

On 4/24/2019 9:15 AM, Barbara Morris wrote:
On 2019-04-24 8:06 AM, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

My issue is that the current alpha field is left justified with trailing blanks.
Not converting well.


That shouldn't matter for %DEC. %DEC, %INT etc ignore blanks.

       dcl-s chr char(5) inz('1    ');
       dcl-s num packed(5);
       num = %dec(chr:5:0);
       if num = 1;
           dsply 'num = 1';
       else;
          dsply 'num <> 1';
       endif;
       return;

Displays "num = 1"

I believe they still complain if the field is ALL blanks.  I've resorted to %int('0' + %trim(myfld)) on occasion (the trim is for leading blanks).  Not pretty , but it works.


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