Re: %CHAR()

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

Mark wrote:
>Is the %CHAR() BIF supposed to strip off the leading
>zeros of numeric variables?  The manual only seems to
>say that it is allowed, but it doesn't say what the
>result will look like.

What you see is what you get!

Perhaps we should beef up the wording in the Reference
Manual, but %CHAR was intended to provide simple
formatting of numeric values in a "natural" format,
with left sign, no leading zeros, and no leading or
trailing blanks.  This is intended for building strings
of text. If you want more sophisticated editing, use
%EDITC or %EDITW.

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com

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