Re: Data conversion - Binary to Character

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>From: "Andrew Goade" <agoade@hubgroup.com>
>Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:04:45 -0600
>
>I was wondering if anyone had an easy way to convert from numeric data
>types to character types and back.  I have a data structure that contains
>alpha, packed, and binary fields.  It gets moved into a long alpha field
>and passed to another program.  Instead of reading the long alpha field
>into back into the data structure, I would like to substring out the
>variables and move them to hold fields.  When I substring out the binary
(4
>positions in the buffer) to a 4 alpha field and try to move it to a 9b 0
>field, my program blows up.  The hex values of the fields are the same, so
>it makes me wonder why RPG won't do the conversion.

Andy, when you use MOVE to move alpha to numeric, RPG assumes that the
alpha contains numeric characters (like '0' - '9').  If you want to just
transfer the binary data from the character field directly to the binary
field, you should define a character overlay for your binary field, and
move to the overlay, character to character, without conversion.  Same
with your packed data.

Barbara Morris