Re: cvthc not converting all values

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/24/2011 5:44 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:
> I would expect 12345F if the rick had specified 6 nibbles, but 12345
> if only 5 nibbles were requested.  Now that I think about it more,
> 'X' works like MOVEL, so should strip even the implied decimal, but I
> don't think it changes negative numbers to letters, or it could.
> That will have to be tested.

Rick doesn't have a packed variable that he can use with %EDITC.  He has 
a string with a packed value in it, where the length (and decimals) are 
not known at compile time.

Rick, if you know that you will never get a value with more than 31 
digits, you could define a packed(63,31) variable in your program, and 
use LBCPYNV to assign the packed value in your string to that packed 
variable.  Then you could use %CHAR on the packed variable.  That would 
handle negatives correctly.  You'd probably want to trim off trailing 
zeros if the input value has decimals.

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