RE: Handling packed data in Character string

Thanks Alan,

One critical piece of information that I missed as that it substring of 18Bytes out of 1200 long field which we are talking about.

Also I meant for 90% of records has this 18byes as Char and only 10% has packed numeric data.

Thanks,
Ashwani

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Could you look at the low order nibble for a hex D or F. If yes, are the other fields packed numeric, maybe.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 5:05 PM Singh, Ashwani (Lake Mary) via RPG400-L < rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I have a situation where < 10 % of my records which I am processing
have packed numeric data and rest are normal Character Data.

I need to print these packed numeric data as character on a report.

I would like to know how should I handle this, using monitor block is
expensive as most of them are non-numeric anyways.

Please let me know how to go about resolving this situation.

Thanks,
Ashwani

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