Re: RPG III

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need a right-adjusted character field to move to your numeric field.
If the number of digits can vary, you will need to get the length of the 
string of digits first.  This code will do what you want:

>  C           ' '       CHEKRVAR10     LEN     40   
>  C           10        SUB  LEN       L       40   
>  C                     CAT  VAR10:L   VAR10R 10    
>  C                     MOVE VAR10R    VAR7    70   




Douglas Palme wrote:
> I am in the process of modifying an RPG III program that I am not permitted
> to convert to ILE.
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> One of the fields is a 10 character field that only contains numeric numbers
> and will never have more than seven digits..I know I could change the field
> length to 7 but I was told no to that as well as it might blow up other
> programs.
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> Here is the delimna, I need to move the value to a 7 digit numeric.  It is
> possible that it can have anywhere from 1 to seven digits.
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> Example:
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> '116769    ' - Charcter value
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> I have a new field defined as 7,0
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> When I do a move on it it shows up as 1167690 and a movel gives me 7690000.
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> Suggestions? Hints?  Converting it is not an option.
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> Douglas
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