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Tracie Jones
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I cannot find the way to change a decimal number field to an alphanumberic field with no leading zeros. I am doing a letter and need to concatenate the gift amount to the end of the sentence, therefore it needs to be an alpha.


tbj
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Tom Flynn
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Tracie,

PTOA function...


Tom Flynn
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Danny-SRL
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Tracie,
You can use either the PTOA - for P fields - or the FTOA function - for F, D or P fields in DEFINE or COMPUTE. For example:
AFIELD/A12=FTOA(DFIELD,'(D10.2)','A12');


Daniel
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FrankDutch
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Danny
Can this also be done with a date field?

So from MYDATE/YYMD as '11th april 2007' or
'21st may 2007'

Frank




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Tracie Jones
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THANKS! ANY WAY TO SUPPRESS THE LEADING SPACES? THERE IS A GAP IN MY LETTER ACCOUNTING FOR THE SPACES. I MADE IT AN A12.


tbj
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Darin Lee
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Looks like the answer you needed is already posted, but I was interested in another comment you made about having to concatenate on the end of a sentence. I don't know how exactly you are producing your letters, but the standard was is to include all text in the heading section. Just wanted to make sure that you know you can include fields there as well without having to convert to text or anything else as in the GIFT_AMT_FIELD in my example below.

TABLE FILE tablenm
PRINT donor_id NOPRINT
HEADING
"Dear Donor,"
" "
"Thank you for your contribution in the amount of <GIFT_AMT_FIELD>. It is sincerely appreciated."
" "
END


Regards,

Darin


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Francis Mariani
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You're most likely concatenating the amount to another alpha field, so this should work:

ALPHA_FIELD2/A100 = ALPHA_FIELD1 || (' ' | PTOA_FIELD);


Francis


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Darin Lee
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Leading space can be eliminated several ways:
Use a || instead of a | in your concatenation
Use the STRIP function to remove all spaces
My standard is to use SQUEEZ to squeeze all spaces into a single space. This preserves at least one space.
Isn't that "Using Functions" manual just your favroite manual of all time? ;-)


Regards,

Darin


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Tracie Jones
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Right Francis, I am concatenating a field.

Thanks Darin, I will use the strip function because I am using the || already.


tbj
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