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Re: Converting a string to a number in RPG

Thanks. I did go to that page, but didn't look at the %dech example which does clearly state that the commas need to be removed.


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On 12/29/2008 at 2:50 PM, in message <4959460C.2060801@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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' Is my problem with the comma?

Seems like a likely cause to me.

See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/books_web/c0925085571.htm or http://tinyurl.com/95lheu.

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