Re: current best practice" packed/11/4 to char/5

Not sure, but %int may cause a conversion to binary (may be slow)

You can use %char(%rem(%dec(ellevenFour: 7: 0): 100)) ;

That will eliminate decimal places, eliminate the first digits if the
number is bigger than 99 and convert to char.  If your variable is 11 .
4 it can hold values > 99.

On 5/23/19 4:53 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

%int().   ah, yes.  Glad I asked.  Knew about %int() yet I didn't
connect the dots.  Thank you,

As to the decimal places:  The same conversation that "guaranteed"
it'd never be over 99 also assured me there'd never be fractional
quantities,  We had > 99 within 72 hours; I am going with truncating
and no leading zeros.

%char(%int()) it shall be then.

Thank you Jon.


On 5/23/2019 9:41 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

twoDigitChar = %Char(%Int(ellevenFour));

Would be one approach.  But should the decimals round or just be
truncated?  What do you want if the number is (say) 0.1234 - do you
want the zero or blanks? If there is only one significant digit do
you want leading zero or blanks? Or perhaps a single digit number
should be left aligned in the char field.

Can't talk to "best practice" without an adequate spec Booth.


Jon Paris

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