Re: Retrieving Decimal Data Area with QWCRDTAA

Dennis-

Thanks for the example. And to your point, I was looking at the returned
data in hex mode when I realized what had been returned and wrote the
email, so I guess that is why I had hex on the brain. I realized after I
sent it that I wasn't technically accurate, but I figured everyone would
get what I meant. Almost sent a follow up but decided against it.

Since everyone seemed to follow, I suppose my less than perfect wording was
adequate but not accurate. :-)

Thanks again for the example.


On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Just remember, the character data here does not contain '20.345'. If
it did, it would be easy. The data here is in hex and I need to get
it to packed.

To quote Tom Hanks: I don't even want to think about what they're not
teaching you in school! Hex, in this context, is a human's view of the
data. Packed has to do with the way the data is stored. Their usage is
not
interchangeable, and neither is in/compatible with the other.

What you've said is equivalent to "I wanted to send data to by friend but
all he received was ones and zeroes."

At any rate, the code found here will, I believe, do exactly what you want.
http://code.midrange.com/83a6933d01.html

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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