Re: Character to Numeric

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken,

In about April of 1998, Midrange Computing published a conversion routine.  It 
was very 
inclusive, supporting things like bracketed negatives.  The published version 
supports up 
to 15.5, I use a modified version that goes up to 30.9.  If you are interested 
and cannot locate 
the code I am sure I can find it, or send my version.

David Morris

>>> ken.slaugh@cm-inc.com 02/28/00 09:20PM >>>

Does RPG/Anything have a way of evaluating a character string to a numeric
result?

Imbedded decimal point would exist and imbedded thousands separator may or
may not exist.  Negative sign may be placed on either left or right of
value. If one or more non-supported characters exist the result should be
Zero.

Visual Basic has a function named Val and is coded:     X = Val(somestring)

Ken Slaugh  (707) 795-1512 x118
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
AS/400 Network Administrator / MSE
Client Access/400 Specialist
http://www.cm-inc.com/

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