Beginner needs help w/ decimal field to text field

I have a decimal field... 9 digits, 2 decimals.  I need to move it into a 
character field of 14 characters, complete with negative sign and decimal. I 
need it to be left justified and padded with blanks.  Examples:

9.32 (00000000932)   should become   '9.32          '
-456.34 should become '-456.34       '


I saw a discussion about this recently, but the solutions given were to use the 
edit code functions available in ILE and I am using RPG/400.


I'm pulling data from a database (externally described) and trying to create a 
tab delimited ASCII file out of it for one of our clients.  After I have 
managed to obtain this value, I will be concatenating a horizontal tab to the 
end of it (hence I need 14 characters - an extra one for the tab in case the 
number happens to be 11 digits, and negative, occupying 13 characters).  I will 
then be concatentating this 14 character string to the rest of a string I've 
already built up, which will then finally be written as a line in a text file.

(this is something that will be created often, *ideally* not by me, so using PC 
tools to make the resulting file tab delimited is not an option)


Any help is appreciated.






Thanks,

Jason Waugh
Systems Development
COLLECTCORP, INC.
(416)935-2883


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