Re: Removing a dash from a phone number -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Removing a dash from a phone number
From: boldt@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:04:40 -0500
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Justin wrote:
>Hello,
>I have a little problem. I have a phone Number that
>is in a character field. The number is 445-1234. I
>need to remove the '-'. So it reads 4451234. Can I
>use %SUBST to do this? If so how?

You can use built-in function %REPLACE.  Hmm, let's see...
Try coding %REPLACE('':'445-1234':4:1)

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com

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