RE: converting string to a numeric

["Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Not necessarily.  I've had occasion to concatenate character 
> data to numeric and to use pieces of numbers for various 
> reasons.  It would be very helpful if %CHAR had an option to 
> not remove leading zeros.  I could eliminate a lot of MOVE, 
> MOVEL, and data structures if it did. 

Use:

Result = %Editc(NumFld:'X');

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