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  • Subject: RE: Char to numeric conversion question
  • From: Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:18:19 +0100

Cant you MOVE the character field to a 9,2 zoned field, then Z-ADD the
zoned field into a 9,2 packed field?

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Jackson [mailto:paulgjackson@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 9:15 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Char to numeric conversion question


Hello All,

Ok here's my problem. I am converting a spool file
into a data base work file.  I am reading the spooled
file records and trying to convert edited numeric
values into packed fields for storage.

For example I have a value from the spool file that
comes in as character 'bbbbb25.03' and I want to put
this into a 9,2 packed field.

I looked for RPGIV built in functions but could find
none that seemed to do the job.  Any suggestions on
how to do this in a relatively simple way?

Thanks in advance
-Paul

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