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I should have added that if you want rounding, use %dech instead of %dec.

Mel Rothman
Mel Rothman, Inc.

Mel Rothman wrote:

You can use %char on the output of %dec and assign the result to a varying field. For example:

  D input           s             16p 8 inz(3.5)
  D char            s             12    varying
  C                   eval      char = %char(%dec(input:8:2))

Mel Rothman
Mel Rothman, Inc.

Emery, Eve wrote:

Hi,


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.


Thanks In Advance

Eve Emery



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