RE: Packed (*CHAR) to Numeric (*DEC) in CLP

[bill.reger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dennis,

That is rather clever Dennis.  I see where that might work!  I'll try it
out.  As to how I got a packed value in a *CHAR field - let me explain what
I'm doing:

I have an RPG ILE procedure that given a key to a file, chains to the
record and returns the entire record as a data structure.  Easy to work
when calling the procedure in RPG.  However in a CLP, I get a big *CHAR
variable and start substringing it down to get my individual fields.  Thus
I need to get my packed data from my substring character variable.

Bill


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