Re: Just checking - itoa still way to convert binary to string?

[Mel Rothman <mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Because the built-in function, %char, works with numeric fields (since V4R4),
why use _itoa?.  Here is a small demonstration.

D bin             s              9b 5 inz(12.234)
D int             s             10i 0 inz(12345)
D string          s             10    varying
 /free
  string = %char(bin);
  dsply string;
  string = %char(int);
  dsply string;
  *inlr = *on;
 /end-free

Mel Rothman, CGIDEV2 Author
IBM eServer Custom Technology Center (CTC), Rochester, Minnesota
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Jim Langston wrote:
>
> Just making sure I haven't missed anything in V5R1 RPG IV.  Is itoa
> still the way to convert from number to text?  I have a 4 byte binary
> number need to convert to text for QCMD processing (spool file number
> in data queue).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston