RE: Moving negative numeric value to character field

eval  fldc = %char(fldn)


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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Banerjee, Amitava
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:38 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Moving negative numeric value to character field

Hi
I am moving a numeric field to a character field in a simple RPG program. In
some cases the numeric field has negative value (say 1-). Then at the time it is
being moved to the character field, the character field is having a curly
bracket }, in place of the negative sign. 
 
I defined the numeric field as Zoned, I also tried to define it as Binary. In
both cases, same thing is happening.
 
But, I don't want the } symbol. How can I get the negative sign in the character
field?
 
Below is the code:
d fldn            s              7S   2                             
d fldc            s              7A                                
C                   z-add    -3             fldn                   
c                   move      fldn          fldc                   
c     fldn          dsply                                          
c     fldc          dsply                                          
c                   seton                                        lr
 
The displayed values:
DSPLY      300-
DSPLY  000030} 
 
 
Thanks
Amitava
 
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