Re: Converting a string to a number in RPG -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Converting a string to a number in RPG
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:14:10 -0500
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Wayne,

If I did that then instead of one million two hundred thirty four thousand
five hundred sixty seven and 89/xx
I would have gotten
one hundred twenty three million four hundred fifty six thousand seven
hundred eighty nine and xx/xx.

Use %xlate to replace the commas with spaces. %dec is forgiving of
spaces.

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

So, in a multilingual application how would one convert all these?
"1234567,89" European comma decimal point

Rob Berendt

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