RE: Code to move left justified alpha to numeric

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <art@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott:

Thanks for the very helpful reply.  I am still trying to compile the
Barbara's getnum example.

Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 6:07 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Code to move left justified alpha to numeric



Hi Art,

Parsing numeric values from character fields has been discussed
extensively on the RPG400-L list, also at Midrange.com.

The technique that I've used is to grab Barbara Morris' GetNum procedure,
make a few minor modifications, and place it in a service program so that
I can use it from any program on the system.  You might consider doing
the same thing.

Other options for character to numeric conversion have also been discussed
on RPG400-L.  MI functions, C functions, etc can all be called from
RPG IV.

Browsing through the archives, I found these messages which I have found
to be helpful:

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200012/msg00018.html
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200012/msg00047.html

For a more extensive discussion, here are some threads on the subject:

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200002/threads.html#00183
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200008/threads.html#00293
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200012/threads.html#00018

You can probably find even more info by searching the archives.

Good luck,



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