RE: Character to Decimal

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try the #CtoN source at www.netshare400.com in the source samples section.
so far it's worked 100% for me.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Thorpe [mailto:Colin@IBS-PUBLIC-SERVICES.CO.UK]
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 10:11 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Character to Decimal
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to take a character field (10A) containing something like
> 123.45bbbbb,
> And move it into a numeric field (12,2) 0000000123.45.
> 
> The character field may or may not contain a decimal point.
> Therefore its value could be from  .01 ==> 9999999999
> 
> Some time ago the C function ATOL was mentioned by Hans.
> 
> I'm using V3R7 and managed to get his example working fine.
> 
> Unfortunately this only returns the integer part of the value.
> 
> I also tried ATOF but I'm not sure what the resulting value 
> means.  2235.14
> = 1079246848 ?
> 
> I can solve this problem using data structures and selects 
> but I'm looking
> for an elegant ILE solution.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Colin     
> 
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