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I have a SQL UDF for this. It just converts the char to its corresponding numeric value with a negative sign.
'0123456789'
'}JKLMNOPQR'

HTH



-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Vaughn [mailto:jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:23 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: parse a negative number out of a before image string

so i have string in my sqlrpgle that was produced from a trigger that contains a negative numeric value in it...
for reference as such... '121200000002632J07182016 '

My negative value is 002632J0, (defined 7,2) which in the table shows
263.21-

Assuming I can "acquire" that string from the before image string, once I have it in a host variable, how do I convert it to a proper string showing '-263.21'?

tia

jay


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