Re: How to convert character field w/ negative numeric data (255N)

[Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael - in this instance, I think its the leading spaces that is
causing the problem, and not the N. So replace the blanks with 0 (zero) and
try it



Alan Shore

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This may have been asked before, but I didn't see it in the archives. Here
is the problem:

Error message: A character representation of a numeric value is in error
Line in error: Eval TotalFld += %Dec(AmountFld:15:2)

Value of AmountFld from DUMP: AmountFld   CHAR(15)    '  000000000255N'

D TotalFld        S             13S 2 Inz(0)

My question is, how do I add a character field that contains numeric data,
including negatives as represented above, to a numeric field?  %Int gave
the same error.  MOVE appeared to work, but I don't want to create a temp
field if I don't have to.  On V5R2.

Thanks,

Mike
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