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  3. January 2004

Re: %char alternative

Emery, Eve wrote: 
What I'm wanting is to convert a packed decimal figure 16,8. To a character
field, but miss off both leading zeros and trailing zeros.

E.g. 00000003.75000000 ----> '3.75'
I can get '3.75000000' using %Char, but none of the editC's I use, seem to
help.


The V5R3 method is to code "%trimr(%char(num):'0')". But that's probably not an option since V5R3 hasn't GA'ed yet.

Today, you can try something like this (untested):

      string = %char(num);
      string = %subst(string:1:%checkr('0':string));

Cheers! Hans



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