RE: cvthc not converting all values

Thanks Barbara. I hate to admit it but I hadn't considered negative numbers yet. I'll take a look at LBCPYNV. The decimal positions shouldn't be an issue.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:01 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: cvthc not converting all values

On 2/24/2011 5:44 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:

I would expect 12345F if the rick had specified 6 nibbles, but 12345
if only 5 nibbles were requested. Now that I think about it more, 'X'
works like MOVEL, so should strip even the implied decimal, but I
don't think it changes negative numbers to letters, or it could.
That will have to be tested.

Rick doesn't have a packed variable that he can use with %EDITC. He has a string with a packed value in it, where the length (and decimals) are not known at compile time.

Rick, if you know that you will never get a value with more than 31 digits, you could define a packed(63,31) variable in your program, and use LBCPYNV to assign the packed value in your string to that packed variable. Then you could use %CHAR on the packed variable. That would handle negatives correctly. You'd probably want to trim off trailing zeros if the input value has decimals.

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200605/msg00738.html
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