Re: Lost in free format conversion.

On 2013/1/25 1:19 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

The bigest issue I see with this is that the OP indicated that his input
value was actually 6 bytes with a leading negative sign (-12345) that he
needed to get into a 5S 0 field.

None of the solutions I have seen address this issue.

I don't think the input value was 6 bytes. It was a 5 digit number with a negative sign, -12345. But that's just 6 bytes when it's typed out. In the program, it would be either 3 bytes (packed) or 5 bytes (zoned). Presumably packed, since there would be no reason to do the move to character if it was already zoned.

Also, I don't see any indication in Armand's original post that the called program needs to use a character form of the parameter.

So as far as I can tell, the best solution suggested so far is to simply define the parameter as 5S 0 in the called program.