Re: how to compare numeric and char fields -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: how to compare numeric and char fields
From: Carel Teijgeler <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 00:21:39 +0200
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Use the BIF %dec

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler

On 14-4-2015 0:01, Hoteltravelfundotcom wrote:

HI I Have to move a data value (weight of an item) which is char 11 into a
numeric 7 02
field.

I have tried eval and move and they will not compile.

how am i to redefine the char field to a numeric? danger of data having bad
data should be
considered, but at this time i wanted to test adding such rows first.

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