FW: Floating minus in input.....

[Peter Bateman]

From: peterbateman808 at hotmail.com
To: bws001 at gmail.com
Subject: RE: Floating minus in input.....
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:55:25 -0400








Hi Brian:    
    I would try reading with FREEFORM instead of ZONED NUMERIC.
Regards,Peter Bateman

Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:46:18 -0600
Subject: Floating minus in input.....
From: bws001 at gmail.com
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com

This one is a little odd for me... On Unix and PH 7

I have a field coming from a windows based  ERP. which can have a leading floating minus.. (decimal thankfully is implied)    

The field in PH is defined as ZONED NUMERIC and I'm getting conversion errors on any record that has the minus sign almost like its expecting only numbers..


I read the file in COBOL as well and they are doing a brute force inspect/tally/replace and then multiply the result in Working Storage.. (Program is from the early 70's!)


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Thanks


Brian Stephens


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