Re: Zero suppress a character field for display...

As Michael says, you get leading blanks. And to address Dennis' concern about non-numeric, the MONITOR-ENDMON is perfect for that.

Assuming the display field is alphameric, then try this (free form) -

monitor;
dspInvoiceNub = %char(%Dec(invoiceNbr : 9 : 0));
on-error;
dspInvoiceNub = invoiceNbr; // or some appropriate warning
endmon;

If there is an error in converting to a decimal, the on-error happens - ba-da-bing!

HTH
Vern

On 6/24/2010 11:42 AM, Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

this would work unless you need to keep the spaces.

dspInvoiceNub = %EditC(%Dec(invoiceNbr:9:0):'Z')

will result in ' 1234567'
instead of '1234567'



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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/24/2010 12:05:09 PM:

Hi all,

This should be quick. I have a character field

d invoiceNbr s 9a

which may hold '001234567'. The user wants to see the invoice number

with

leading zeroes suppressed so '1234567'.

My first thought is
/free
dspInvoiceNbr = %Char(%Dec(invoiceNbr: 9: 0));
/end-free

Is there a better method or is this about as good as any other method?

Thanks,

Rob
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