RE: RV: Converting Packed to Char.

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeppers, I counted wrong. 
 
there is a cvthc()? that is good to know.
 
But what was he looking for then? "the term "hex data" to refer to data 
that's not human-readable." would be what? 
 
( I learn sooo much on this list.)
 
 
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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:56:41 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: RV: Converting Packed to Char.
 
 
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Bill Hopkins wrote:
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> Isn't the 13th element 'C'?
>
 
 
Yep, Booth said it wrong :)
 
When you end up with 12, and add 1, you get the 13th element, which is
'C'. And that's good, because the decimal number 12 is represented as C
in hex.
 
I don't know why Booth didn't just use cvthc()? I guess maybe he just
wanted to explain the algorithm?
 
At any rate, it's all moot, because the poster wasn't looking for a hex
dump of the variable, he just used the term "hex data" to refer to data
that's not human-readable.