Converting alphanumeric data to numeric with right justifica

mouli · New User Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 12 Location: kolkata

Hi all,

Say we have a variable A which is X(3) and variable B which is 9(3).

If we have values like "1 " , "10 " etc in A with trailing spaces and we want them as 001 and 010 respectively in B which is right justification of the data with preceeding zeroes.

How can that be accomplished with COBOL? Can anyone give the code snippet for that?

Thanks & regards,
Mouli

somasundaran_k · Active User Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 134

Hi Mouli

Check the NUMVAL function.

mouli · New User Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 12 Location: kolkata

Hi somasundaran_k,

Thank u very much for ur solution. it's working very fine.

thanks & Regards
mouli