RE: BIF to trim leading 0's

["Prowak, Dave" <DProwak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't see how %CHA would do it.

From the manual:
%CHAR
The converted value remains unchanged, 
but is returned in a format that is compatible with character data. 

Seems like I'd still have the leading 0's, only in char format.




-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:01 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: BIF to trim leading 0's



Dave wrote:
>          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

Have you tried BIF %CHAR?

For example:

      str = "value: " + %char(number)


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

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