Re: Variable Numeric return from procedure

[JFinney@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Again

While it made perfect sense at the time, upon reading my original question
this morning, it seems vague to say the least ! Allow me to elaborate.

I have a series of programs reading uploaded files (from NT Server using
SQL7). The recfmt's of the files differ from 90 -> 150 chars/record. Now
there are a lot of "left-justified-and-filled-with-blanks" areas of the
recfmt which are to be moved to numerics (which vary from 8.0 to 15.5).
The idea I have is to perhaps use an expression, where I invoke a procedure
which receives a CHAR 30 but (perhaps based on a parameter) returns the
numeric type needed (e.g. 11.3). Is it somehow possible to do this and, if
so, how ?

Hope this was a little more explanatory than the original encrypted
version.

Regards
John.






JFinney@omnia.co.za on 30/08/99 14:47:14

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Subject:  Variable Numeric return from procedure




Hi All

Is there a way I can code a generic-type procedure to receive a 30 char
field &, based on a 2nd parm, return a numeric of length (parm 2) ?

Regards
John.


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