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  3. May 2003

RE: Converting Alpha left justified to numeric

>I need to convert an alpha field into numeric 

The FAQ has some information on this.  http://faq.midrange.com

>Scenario - the field is 15 Alpha and the number is left 
>justified with leading zeros removed (0000001 is 1 + 6 
>blanks).  I want to convert it to a numeric field 
>to be 0000001.

This woke me up.  Numeric fields always have leading zeroes unless you are
editing them for output, in which case they become character fields!  So
there is no requirement to add the leading zeroes into a numeric field.
1=01=001=0001, etc.
  --buck

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