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  3. February 2004

Re: Need to Scrub/Convert Alpha to Numeric - Unique Situation

This is a FAQ!

http://faq.midrange.com/index.pl?file=52

The FAQ should lead you to write code like this:

     c                   eval      input = '5.034A'
     c                   eval      output =
     c                                %dec( %xlate('Aa':'  ':input): 9: 4)



On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Ted Barry wrote:
>
> input field is 12A and is formatted '5.034A' I need to place this in a
> field 9,4.
> output field 9 4S I'm assuming would be formatted 00005.0340
> How would I go about scrubbing this?
>

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