NCONVERT Output

[Mike Palandri]

I've been trying to find an example, but I can't seem to locate one 
now.  However I do seem to recall that I've had to convert the digits on 
the left and right of the decimal point separately, then to the match to 
assign them to a float.


At 07:08 AM 12/02/2005, John Stires wrote:
>One of my coworkers has been rather perplexed with NCONVERT.  He is 
>attempting to convert a number with a decimal component.  Instead of 
>getting a numeric with the decimal component still intact, he is getting 
>in integer number.  He has tried using NUM and FLOAT for the receiving 
>defined field.  Both with the same results.
>
>The ultimate goal is to produce a value with the decimal component to save 
>in a file.
>
>It would seem that we are missing something obvious, but what???
>
>We are running on a VAX with VMS 6.2 and PowerHouse version 7.10.E6.
>
>I do not believe the fact that we are using this out of an RDB database 
>would have any bearing on this.
>
>Any good ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>John
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Mike
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