RE: %CHAR()

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

At 11/22/00 11:23 AM -0800, you wrote:
>All I want is a bif that turn numeric into character.  Position by position
>in a field, with NO editing.  No decimal points, no commas, no signs, nothing.

%EditC( Number: 'X' ) does it just fine.


>   And then a bif from character to numeric.  Just like MOVE works.

  This one I would also like to see.


>I'm not trying to beat anyone up Hans, quite the opposite.  Really.  But I
>don't understand why we need a %char as a short form of %editc.

  It's not the same.  First of all, this was actually created to convert 
some "special" data types to character, such as date and UCS-2, etc. 
types.  It also suppresses leading zeros and trims the leading blanks.


  -mark

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