Re: numeric fields to character

[watern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

 Mohamed,

The %EDITC built in function will do what you require.

eg  EVAL charval = %editc(numval:'J') will provide minus sign, decimal point and
thousands seperators.

hth
nigel

>Hello
>
>I have a Numeric Field of Length 11,3 which has value -800.00 (Negative
>800). I want to move this to a character field of length 11 which should
>have value as  -800.00 only.  But when I move to character field it goes as
>00000800000}. Is there any way by which I can get the result as expected? (I
don't want to
>use CAT/SUBST/CHECK operations)
>
>Thanks in advance Regards
>Mohamed Noorul Ameen K



+---
| This is the RPG/400 Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---