RE: losing the negative sign?

Mike,

So PS43 is an Alpha field???

That explains the problems.....

%DEC() is a better choice. Otherwise, for move to work, you need the sign encoded in the last
character. Looking back at the RPG III manual:

"For the MOVE operation, the zone portion of the rightmost character is converted to its corresponding
sign and moved to the rightmost position of the numeric result field. It becomes the sign of the
field."

HTH,

Charles Wilt
Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
513.701.1307

wiltc@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Mike Berman
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:24 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: losing the negative sign?

OK I did a little experiment. A test file with a record in it, with a
alpha field of 8, with a negative sign. when moving this field of 8 to a
numeric field of 8 loses the negative sign, when the sign is to the left.
when it is to the right a 0 takes it place.

This seems to be the problem.

Thank you all,

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