RE: TESTN

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know it's not the best choice for, but the people who wrote the programs
overlooked that. <g>  I've seen things like '1234J' in garbled import data.
I rarely use testn myself.    

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dow [mailto:pcdow@MailAndNews.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:49 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: TESTN
> 
> 
> Hi Joel,
> 
> I agree. But TESTN isn't really a good choice there, because 
> ASCII data, say
> from Excel, generally has a leading sign for negative numeric 
> fields, which
> TESTN would say is not numeric.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax
> 
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