Re: CONCATENATING A NUMERIC IN RECORD

[Albert Howard <starbukk@concentric.net>]

you can use a move statement with an edit mask so it will force it to the
format you want. Example:

move &fielda to $char_fielda  09999999999

The above example would result in $char_fielda being zero-filled.

At 01:29 PM 1/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone know how to concatenate a numeric when building a fixed
>length record?
>
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>I'm getting the field from the database and the length of the data
>changes from record to record.
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>I've been able to pad  character fields with spaces but numerics have
>been more difficult.
>
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>I have been unable to get the length of a numeric field and when I
>change it to a character
>it changes the data.