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 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



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