RE: v5r2 %dec using character argument causing RNQ0105

Dan,

It's the comma.  The following is taken from the RPG reference manual.

*-----------------------------------------------------------------
* If the character data is known to contain non-numeric characters
* such as thousands separators (like 1,234,567) or leading
* asterisks and currency symbols (like $***1,234,567.89), some
* preprocessing is necessary to remove these characters from the
* data.
*-----------------------------------------------------------------
D data s 20a inz('$1,234,567.89')
D num s 21p 9
/free
// Use the %XLATE builtin function to replace any currency
// symbol, asterisks or thousands separators with blanks
num = %dech(%xlate('$*,' : ' ' : data)
: 21 : 9);
// If the currency symbol or thousands separator might
// vary at runtime, use variables to hold these values.
num = %dech(%xlate(cursym + '*' + thousandsSep : ' ' : data)
: 21 : 9);

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan [mailto:dbcerpg@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:38 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: v5r2 %dec using character argument causing RNQ0105

On v5r2, trying to use %dec to convert a numeric expression in an alpha
field to a numeric, but am
getting RNQ0105: "A character representation of a numeric value is in
error".  I found no APARs
for this.  Any help would be appreciated!

Here is the relevent code:
  FWIPlist   if   f  132        disk
  FPD14WL#   o    e             disk
  IWIPlist   ns                    
  I                                105  117  wl_@xxxxxx
  I                                118  132  wl_estamt
  C                   Dou       *inLR     
  C                   Read      WIPlist                                LR
  C                   If        not *inLR 
  c                   Select              
  c                   When      wl_@xxxxxx = 'ESTIMATE AMT:'
  c                   Eval      w#_estamt = %dec( %trim(wl_estamt) : 13 : 2
)

Here is the relevent parts of the dump:
 NAME                  ATTRIBUTES           VALUE
 W#_ESTAMT             PACKED(15,2)         0000000000000.00
 WL_@xxxxxx            CHAR(13)             'ESTIMATE AMT:'
 WL_ESTAMT             CHAR(15)             '       3,793.00'
            VALUE IN HEX         '40404040404040F36BF7F9F34BF0F0'X


TIA, Dan

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