Unpacking data from SQLVAR

I'm a bit new to SQL and have managed to create a dynamic variable column
sql program.  I can retrieve the character fields with no problems, but am
coming unstuck with the packed/zoned data.

I have retrieved the data into a long data structure in order to parse it
out and have managed to get the precision and scale of the numeric field
into a usable version.  I need to know how to parse the packed/zoned data
out of the data structure and then move to the next column's data.

Any help/examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Steph


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