RE: mapping a field

I believe it is either L or P....don't remember exactly...4 is no commas, no
sign, no zero balances...

Mike Wills
IT Corporate Support
MNWills@taylorcorp.com


-----Original Message-----
From: James David Rich [mailto:james@eaerich.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:22 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: mapping a field


On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 saustad@deltadentalwi.com wrote:

> For a data warehousing project, we need to map a P(7,2) dollar field 
> to 10A field, which they are calling a currency format type. Right 
> adjusted, no commas, if minus sign, needs to be front, ie. -999999.99.  
> If the value is 0, supply 0.00. Does anyone know of an algorithm or a 
> procedure to peform this?

eval    charfield = %editc(packedfield:'4')

the '4' may be wrong - check the code for the EDTCDE keyword in the DDS
manual.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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