Re: EDTCDE(Z) in a alfa field

The %EDITC BIF works well for this type of application.
However, I'm not sure that the %CHAR would work.  I know under V4R1 that %CHAR
is meant for converting only Date fields or Date Literals to Character
representation.
Has that been changed in later releases?
Thank you.
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Silvio wrote:
>I have an integer (3,0) that I need to CONCAT with another field to send to the
screen as an >alfa field.
>When I do a MOVELVNT VALF, if my variable as the value "56" when it will
happens that the VALF >will
>have the "056" value. My question is how can I eliminate the "0" and therefore
have the value >"56 " in VALF ?

If you are using ILE RPG, it's easy.  On V3R7 or above, use
%TRIML(%EDITC(VNT:'Z')).  On V4R4, it's even easier:  %CHAR(VNT).

If you're still using the old RPG, use CVTRPGSRC to convert your
program to RPG IV, then use one of the above techniques.

If you really need to stick with the old RPG, then you could use
opcode CHECK to locate the first non-zero character, then SUBST
to get the actual digits.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com





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