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  3. February 2003

Re: text to numeric BIF

If you are on V5R2 look at %dec, %dech, %int, %inth,
%uns, and %unsh.

Scott Mildenberger

--- meovino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Are there any BIF's that will allow you to convert
> the value of an alpha
> field to a numeric field?  I currently am using MOVE
> to move the alpha
> field value to a signed numeric, then Z-ADD to get
> the value into a packed
> field.  It looks something like this:
> 
>      c                   move      alpha        
> signed
>      c                   z-add     signed       
> packed
> 
> There has got to be a better way than this,
> especially now that I'm using
> free format.


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