Keep Leading Zeroes in Character Field

[Ohmes, Matt]

Rats, Conrad beat me to most of the punch.  We didn't know you were joining.
I sent you one set of bad code, nconvert(gbsbl,8) is indeed an error.  I was
thinking of Cconvert(x,8)... [ASCII(x,8) to non-IBMers]

If you are linking numeric to numeric then it shouldn't really make a
difference what numeric data storage type you use.  The only exception is
perhaps if you are trying to link to a floating point number, 1.99999999...
is not equal to 2.

I suspect you are linking to a character field with leading zeros, not a
numeric.  Either that or both "gbsbl" and the item you are linking to are
character. One without leading zeros and one with.  If that is the case, try
"00" + gbsbl
Good luck,
Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: joann.l.olsen@us.abb.com [mailto:joann.l.olsen@us.abb.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:26 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: Keep Leading Zeroes in Character Field




Thanks to everyone for the help.  I needed the leading zeroes for linking to
another file where the key in that file is numeric and contains the leading
zeroes.  I tend to agree with Bob Edis.  It can't be done.  Back to the
drawing
board!

This did not produce an error, but did not give me leading zeroes:

def d-num num*8 significance 8 pic "^^^^^^^^"  = nconvert(gbsbl)

On the following define, I got an error pointing to the comma.      def
d-num
num*8 = nconvert(gbsbl,8)


Original message:

I need to convert a character field to a numeric field, but keep the leading
zeroes.  If the nconvert is used, it drops the leading zeroes.  How can that
be
accomplished?  We are on an AS/400.

Example:  subledger  char*8 = 00100241
                     def D-NUM num*8 = nconvert(subledger)

The results in D-NUM is 100241

Thanks



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