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  3. July 2003

Re: Move 'ABC' to Numeric?

Tadashi Kakefuda wrote:

Hi

The string 'ABC' is x'C1C2C3' in hex decimal and if the attribute of the
NUM is zoned decimal type,it will work. The x'C1C2C3' means '123' in
Character Numeric at main frame (I'm not sure, but I heard so.) And SNA
will support it on AS/400 also. 

But... if it is a packed decimal field, it causes a decimal error.
Because the last 4bit is '3' in x'C1C2C3'.(If it is X'123F', it will be
OK.) Is the RPG program made with IGNORE DECIMAL ERROR option?

No, in cases where the MOVE operation is used to move a character value to a numeric variable, RPG IV (and RPG III too) first treats the character value as a zoned decimal numeric. X'C1C2C3' is a valid zoned decimal value, which easily converts to X'123F' in packed decimal format.

Cheers! Hans



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