RE: Checking for field with Garbage Value in RPG.

Yes .. Really !!
Even -
        if testchar < ' ' ( x'40' is hex value for blank )
worked out.

Thanks to all ..

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Subject: RE: Checking for field with Garbage Value in RPG.






"Gauri Kulkarni" <gauri.kulkarni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The major problem I faced was comparing the "Hexadecimal Value
> of a character" with X'40. I had to use my own conversion logic
> to get the things done.
> Is there any simple way by which I can convert the Char to Hex
> and will be able to do the comparison operation as well?

Gauri,

You don't need to convert the character. Simply compare it with a hex
constant, eg:

      if testChar < x'40';

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