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  3. December 2008

Re: Converting a string to a number in RPG

The %dec bif is pretty forgiving, but it does treat both commas and periods as decimal points, so you are in effect feeding it an argument that is invalid because it contains two decimal characters.

Frances Denoncourt wrote:
It just so happens that I had just written a clunky routine to convert a character field to numeric when I saw these posts.
The value is LETOTL = ' 1,492.05' So, I tried this instead: Eval #Amount = %Dec(LETOTL:11:2) Where #Amount is defined D #Amount S 11 2
However, I got this error message:
A character representation of a numeric value is in error.
Is my problem with the comma?
We are at V5R4M0
Thanks,
Fran Denoncourt
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On 12/29/2008 at 8:08 AM, in message <OF69A3F30F.2F65B4DE-ON8525752E.0052F151-8525752E.005338D4@xxxxxxxxx>, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Check the V5R3 RPGLE Reference available via the infocenter at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/books/sc092508.pdf
Since V5R3 is scheduled for destruction in a few months you may want to download that.

Rob Berendt

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