RE: %CHAR

Buck,

I was hoping to see the C functions to convert the numeric into character.
Or am I confused and they're just useful for the other way?

Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Albino asked

>Is there a better way, besides move,
>to evaluate a numeric zoned field
>into character?
>If I use %char(field) I get the first 0 truncated.
>field = 02015
>    eval pxxfield = %char(field)
>the result is '2015'  and I want it to be '02015'.


Rob asked:

>Who is going to whip up the FAQ?

Done.  See http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/184.html or search (lower
left) for 'numeric'.

  --buck

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered --
 either by themselves or by others." -Mark Twain
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