RE: Moving Char field to Numeric field right justified

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barbara,
I'm not sure if I have an example, but I may have been thinking of this:
  %dec('   $1,234.50' : 7 : 2)
And I realize it is the $ that's the issue (along with the commas) not the
leading blanks.
-Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:42 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Moving Char field to Numeric field right justified

Bob Cozzi wrote this:
>The %DEC built-in function will blow up on this conversion. Do not use it
>for that. But if you are on V5R2, you could use %INT instead of atoll() as
>I suggested earlier, but still do the %SUBST and CHECK opcodes first.

and then this:
>%DEC only works if the value is pretty clean; otherwise, you get a runtime
>error message. Even leading blanks can cause a problem with %DEC.
> 

%DEC and %INT have the same rules with respect to "clean".  Do you have
an example where leading blanks cause a problem with %DEC?

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