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Hank Watson
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| Does anyone have a clever way of taking a left justified, space filled PIC X field that contains a number and moving it to an actual numeric field. I can do it byte by byte (which I have done many times in the past) but is there an easier way? In other languages, such as JAVA, this is easy; but I don't know of an easy way to do this in COBOL. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello and welcome to the forum,
If you are absolutely positive the value will always be a left-justified numeric value, you might consider using NUMVAL to move the number to a numeric field.
If you are not familiar with NUMVAL, there is a link to "IBM Manuals" at the top of the page. What you are looking for will be in the COBOL Language Reference. |
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Hank Watson
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| This was my first attempt at posting to any of the forums. I must say - VERY IMPRESSED! Perfect anwser forcing me to read the book and learn something new. Not surprisingly, the function works as documented. Many thanks. |
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dick scherrer
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Good to hear it is working - thanks for letting us know 
Some of us "old guys" believe the main purpose of the forum is to help with learning . . .
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