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  3. August 2003

Re: Character to Numeric can it be cleaned up

Bill Hopkins wrote:
> ...
> I was wondering if can I do this on v5r1 or am I stuck with 'C' functions
> and procedures (that do 50 times more than I need on this).
> 
> Eval       CHAR1     =      %editc((%dec(CHAR1) + NUM1):'4')
> 
> Just wanted to add a number to a character field with a number in it and
> no decimals in it's value. Result in character.
> 

Your character field with a number in it is sort of a data structure
with one zoned subfield.  If you define it that way, dealing with the
numeric part is easy.

D CHAR1        DS           qualified
D   numval            5s 0

          CHAR1.numval = CHAR1.numval + NUM1

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