Re: losing the negative sign?

["Francis Lapeyre" <flapeyre@xxxxxxxxx>]

Use the %DEC built-in function istead of MOVE.

On Jan 30, 2008 1:23 PM, Mike Berman <mikeba777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK I did a little experiment. A test file with a record in it, with a
> alpha field of 8, with a negative sign. when moving this field of 8 to a
> numeric field of 8 loses the negative sign, when the sign is to the left.
> when it is to the right a 0 takes it place.
>
>  This seems to be the problem.
>
>  Thank you all,
>
>
> Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Mike Berman wrote:
> > ulitmately it is printed with a "K" but the org, field is 7 len. does it
> lose the sign under what circumstances, would you see it losing the sign if
> at all?
>
> Edit code K indicates a trailing negative sign ... any chance another
> field is overlapping the column after the ones (10^0) place of QNUM?
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