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--- Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Marco Facchinetti wrote:
> 
> In this case, if XXUTENTE is a fixed length character
> field, you can 
> use %SIZE() instead of %LEN() since one character
> occupies one byte:
I see..
> 
>     xxutente =
> %EDITC(%DEC(xxutente:%size(xxutente):0):'Z');
> 
> But what exactly are you trying to do here? It appears
> you are 
> converting a character string representing some signed
> number and 
> converting it to a right adjusted character string
> repesenting the 
> absolute value of the number and excluding digits to the
> right of 
> the decimal point. A more concise way of achieving that
> is:
> 
>     evalr xxutente = %char(%abs(%int(xxutente)));
> 
> Cheers! Hans
> 

exactly, thanks!!




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