RE: Moving negative numeric value to character field

%Char was created as a quick and easy way to concatenate numeric data with
character data. As a long-standing programming issue in CL, it was something
everyone wanted to avoid in RPG IV.

   msg = 'My name is ' + name + ' and my age is' + %char(age);



-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:04 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Moving negative numeric value to character field

Could knowing people shed light on the differences between %char, 
%editw, & %editc?  Is there a preference?  Is there different behavior? 
  Is %char a subset of %editc(fld: 'J')?


Bob Cozzi wrote:
> eval  fldc = %char(fldn)
> 
> 
> -Bob Cozzi
> www.RPGxTools.com
> RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.
>