Re: Editcode

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

derek gonsalves wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to move a value from a 10 character field to a 2 decimal
>
> ABC           10
> xyz              2  0
>
> I am doing a MOVEL operation to move this value to the numeric field.
> Now if i have the value of ABC = 1, then the value passed on to XYZ is 
> 10(Since it moves 1 from left, and initial value of XYZ is 00)
> What is the edit code that i can use to remove the trailing Zeros before 
> i move the character field to the numeric field.?

Try %INT.  It handles "readable" numeric values in strings such as 
'-1.23', ignoring all blanks.
   c     eval xyz = %int(ABC)

It doesn't matter what value xyz had before the MOVEL.  The MOVEL 
doesn't just move the '1'; it moves the first two characters of ABC, 
handling the blank as though it were '0'.  (The original value of xyz 
would only matter if xyz was bigger than ABC.)