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  3. December 2001

Re: Moving char to numeric in free-format RPG

Hi Jade -

>Thanks for the suggestion, but MOVE isn't supported in free-form RPG.  As
>much as it pained me to do it, I used the following code:
>
>  /end-free
>c                   move      $entry_year   parm_year40
>  /free
>
>I think I'll have to look into my options using data structures.

If you are sure that the character field always contains numeric digits,
you can define the input field in RPGLE on a D-spec as zoned decimal.  You
don't need a data structure and you don't need a move.

Ken
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