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JackieInLR
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I have a packed decimal field 11 digits in length (6 bytes actual) that I want to convert to alpha format. When I used the EDIT command, it was unpredictable, as I found in the CREATING REPORTS manual the following statement:
"Also, converting a number with more than nine significant digits in floating-point or packed-decimal foramt may produces an incorrect result."

It sure does! Mad

Does anyone have a suggestion to convert this data?

Thanks!
Jackie
 
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Chris Boylan
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EDIT internally uses a 4 byte integer field as its base so you're limited to what can be stored in an I4 field which is a low 10 digit number.

To convert large packed numbers to alpha, convert it to F or D format first, then use the FTOA subroutine the syntax of which is as follows:

FTOA (infield, '(format)', outfield);

infield: The name of the field to be converted.
format: The format of the original field with any desired edit options.
outfield: The name of the field to receive the alphanumeric value.


These DEFINEs should work (ORIGNAL_FIELD is the P11 packed field):

D_NUMB/D11 = ORIGINAL_FIELD;
ALPHA_NUMBER/A11 = FTOA (D_NUMB, '(D11)', ALPHA_NUMBER);

Hope that helps.

-CB
 
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