RE: BIF to trim leading 0's

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a #ZChar() function (Zerosupress Character) I wrote a few years ago
that still works like a charm today.  It' simple and I can post the source
if folks want.

But, if you can compile to v3r7 %editc should work.

Brad



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prowak, Dave [mailto:DProwak@ci.syracuse.ny.us]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:11 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: BIF to trim leading 0's
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>       Is there a BIF to trim leading 0's off of a numeric 
> field AND reduce
> the field size accordingly?
> 
>       i.e. a field with a value of 000012345
>       I want to print:
>       "value: 12345"
>       instead of 
>       "value: 000012345"
>       or
>       "value:        12345"
> 
> Thanks from snowy Upstate NY,
> Dave
> 
> 177 inches and counting......
> 
> 
> 
>  
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