Re: Character to Decimal

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P.S.And of course once you apply the option you can change the DS definition to numeric.

Or keep it character and just use %Dec without the %Xlate


Jon P

> 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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