RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Alpha to Numeric converion issue

Or you could wrap a monitor end-mon around the conversion
And convert it to zero upon an error

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:06 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EXTERNAL] 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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