Re: %CHAR()

>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:04:29 -0800
>From: Jim Langston <jimlangston@conexfreight.com>
>
>I think we are talking semantics here.  They are talking about the value
>of the number, not the byte representation, which you are describing.
>
>D Num1       S       6S  0
>D Num2       S       6B  0
>D Num3       S       6P  0
>
>Those are all numeric variables that can contain the *value* 123.  Each
>stores them in a different way.  But the BIF works on all 3 of them.

Jim, Tom isn't talking about the byte representation of the numeric
value.  He's saying that %char should behave similar to MOVE and MOVEL.
As you know, MOVE puts the character representation of a numeric value
into a character field, independent of the numeric format.  Packed, or
zoned, if the numeric field has the value 1.234, the character field
will have the value '1234'.  Some people might expect the result of
MOVE from packed to char to give a result something like x'01234F', but
it doesn't work that way.

Tom, do you think %char(-0012345) should return '001234N'?

Barbara Morris


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