Re: Ignore Data Decimal Errors

[Vanya Jovic <jovic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck,

are you sure about this? I think that TestN works only with zoned
numbers. In your example, AMLADChar would have just "character"
represenatation of packed number, somethig like x"123456789F", which is
BTW "undisplayable". TestN is looking for something like x"F1F2F3F4F5".

Take care,

Vanja Jovic,
Canada 



On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Buck Calabro/commsoft wrote:
> 
> If this were a production file, I'd test the data rather than let the 
> system "fix" the number:
> 
> D                 DS 
> D  AMLAD                  1      5P 0 
> D  AMLADChar              1      5 
> 
> C                   TestN                   AMLADChar            979899
> 
> You can test for 3 conditions:
> HI (97) - field contains numbers or it is a 1 char field containing A-R
> LO (98) - field contains leading blank(s) and numbers
> EQ (99) - field contains all blanks
> 
> Testing it yourself lets you print an error report so you can get the data 
> provider to clean up the data before you get it.  If that's not feasable, 
> at least having the report will tell your user that the problem hasn't 
> changed.  What happens when the data provider has a problem and all the 
> records have invalid data?  If you have an error report, your user will get 
> 100 pages instead of the 1 they're used to -- they will know that something 
> has changed.  FIXNBR won't tell your user anything.
> 
> Buck Calabro
> Billing Concepts Inc (formerly CommSoft), Albany, NY
> mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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