Re: String to Numeric

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 13:34:14 -0800
>From: Vini.Kolathur@msasaro.com (Vini Kolathur)
>
>   Jim,
>     Try the atof() procedure available in the binding directory QC2LE.
>     the prototype for it goes like this
>
>     dc2f              pr             8f   extproc('atof')
>     dstring                           *   value options(*string)
>     c                    eval      int=c2f(%trim(amount1))

If you use atof, be sure to use EVAL(H) when assigning the
floating point result to a non-floating point value, otherwise
an input value of say 12345 might get returned as 12344.999999
and assigned to the int as 12344.

Barbara Morris


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