Re: convert of character passed param to numeric -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: convert of character passed param to numeric
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:15:41 -0500
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On 3/9/2016 11:46 AM, Paul Roy wrote:

how did you pass the parm to test your program ?
if is from the command entry display... are you enclosing the number in
quotes and formatted with leading zeroes ?

Adding leading zeros isn't necessary if you're using %DEC to get the numeric value. %DEC assumes that the string contains a readable number, like '-123.45'.

The leading zeros are only necessary if you use MOVE, which assumes that the character value has the same layout as a zoned decimal value (for example '01234N', for -0123.45).

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