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Jon,
The problem is I won't always know where the data structure is coming from
and I don't want to have to hard code field names.  Basically what is
happening is I have a program that is triggered off of multiple files.  I
want to read the buffer in and extract the data using the QADBIFLD file in
a substring.  The problem is the binary and packed fields are in hex
values.  Therefore, I have to substring them out, put them in their native
form, and then move them to an alpha field to be encoded into an XML
message.




                    "Jon Paris"
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 >> I was wondering if anyone had an easy way to convert from numeric data
types to character types and back.

You've already got the "easy" answer - read the parm into the DS and
everything is automagic - why don't you want to do this?  Anything else is
much harder and more error prone (and will in most cases require the use of
a DS anyway).

Jon Paris
Partner400




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