Re:

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As everyone is stating, use %EditC or %EditW, but you should really use a
13 byte character field.  Think of -10000000.000  That is 11,3.  But it takes
13 characters to represent it.  Or consider using a 9,3 numeric field for a 
11 byte character field.

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Mohamed K (RBIN/DBA-ASD)" wrote:
> 
> 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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