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  3. April 2008

Re: Number to Character in EGL

Nick Arndt wrote:
Hi all,

How would you do the following in EGL: mychar = %editc(mynbr:'X');

My fields are defigned as such:

mynbr decimal(6,0);
mychar char(6);


when I do mychar = mynbr

I get: "76855 ". The result I would like is "076855"

Any Idea on how to do this?
It's not a one-for-one replacement, but if you know the length it's pretty simple:

mychar = formatNumber(mynbr, "&&&&&&");

The upside to formatNumber is that it has a bit more flexibility: Here's the 6.0 documentation:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/radhelp/v6r0m1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.etools.egl.doc/topics/reglinf0019.html

http://tinyurl.com/4m57rf

Joe

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