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  3. February 2004

Re: Moving Char field to Numeric field right justified

Bob Cozzi wrote:
> 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.

Ok.  %int wouldn't like the $ and comma any better.  atoll() wouldn't
handle that either, although you wouldn't get an exception, you'd just
get zero.  The MI builtin (CVTEFN?) could handle the $ and comma, I
think.

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