Re: parse a negative number out of a before image string

[Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>]

yep very cool justin... a udf is a great idea...  i just built that same
procedure in my rpg pgm

jay

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:05 PM Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a SQL UDF for this.  It just converts the char to its corresponding
> numeric value with a negative sign.
> '0123456789'
> '}JKLMNOPQR'
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Vaughn [mailto:jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:23 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: parse a negative number out of a before image string
>
> so i have string in my sqlrpgle that was produced from a trigger that
> contains a negative numeric value in it...
> for reference as such... '121200000002632J07182016    '
>
> My negative value is 002632J0, (defined 7,2) which in the table shows
> 263.21-
>
> Assuming I can "acquire" that string from the before image string, once I
> have it in a host variable, how do I convert it to a proper string showing
> '-263.21'?
>
> tia
>
> jay
>
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