Re: Character to Decimal

I gather from what you have coded that this is actually a thousands separator and not a european decimal point.

If that is the case then compiling with the Ctl-Opt (H-spec) keyword EXPROPTS(*USEDECEDIT) should fix it. That should make it treat the comma as a thousands separator.

You might also consider using EXPROPTS(*ALWBLANKNUM) as well since this allows blank entries to be treated as zero.

These are available for 7.3 and 7.4 via PTF - they were part of Fall 2020's TR enhancements if I recall correctly.


Jon Paris

On May 13, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Using XML-INTO... it's been a long time.

I have an XML document where they representing the quantity like
<quantity>2,499</quantity>

Pulling my hair out getting that into a numeric field... finally ended up with

Number = %dec(%xlate(',':' ':quantity(x)):6:0)

Just curious if there isn't a better way?

Greg
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