Re: convert packed to alpha

Okay,

Can you please repost the code sample replacing the variable
'l' (lowercase L) with some other variable name?  With the
font I am using in Netscape I can't tell the L's from the one's
so makes it hard to debug.

Which of these is an L and which is a one? l1  8-)

Thanks.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!


> "Simmerlein, Stefan" wrote:
> 
> Hi, i have some problems with this code.
> 
> I've tested it with different numbers, (3617900 for example)
> and it works fine.
> 
> In some cases i've got wrong results.
> For Example:
> hexstring = hex value of 3494402,  5240211
> alphastring = 3494002,  5200211
> 
> Hexstring contains the hex value from a packed field (fieldxyz  9p 0).
> What's wrong ??????????
> 
> The code looks like this
> 
> d universal_ds e ds     extname(filexyz)
>         ......
> d universal         s         500a
>         .....
> d hexstring     s       500a                    (hexstring contains the hex 
>value from a packed number)
> d alphastring   s               500a    inz     (that's the result)
> d l                     s                   3p 0        inz             
>(length oh hexstring)
> 
> d                    ds
> d num                             30p 0
> d char16                         16     overlay(num)
>         .......
> c                   eval      universal = universal_ds
> c                   eval      hexstring = %subst(universal:1:5)         (pos 
>1-5 = packed field 9p 0)
>         .......
> c                   eval      l = %len(hexstring)
> c                   evalr     char16 = %subst(hexstring:1:l)
>         .......
> c     ' ':x'00'     xlate     char16        char16
> c                   eval      alphastring = %char(num)
>         .......

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