http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/numeric-string-in-character-field-with-commas/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:14:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/numeric-string-in-character-field-with-commas/#comment-112506 WoodEngineer Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:19:10 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/numeric-string-in-character-field-with-commas/#comment-112506 Search for Bob Cozzi’s CharToNum procedure.  Works great.  He even includes the source code in the posting.

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/numeric-string-in-character-field-with-commas/#comment-112469 graybeard52 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:30:37 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/numeric-string-in-character-field-with-commas/#comment-112469 I use %xlate inside %dec so the decimal can float.  This replaces commas with spaces that are ignored by %dec
MyNumField = %DEC(%XLATE(‘,’:’ ‘:MyCharField):15:5)

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/numeric-string-in-character-field-with-commas/#comment-112446 philpl1jb Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:04:33 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/numeric-string-in-character-field-with-commas/#comment-112446 Try
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/converting-amount-in-character-field-to-numeric-in-rpgle/
 

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/numeric-string-in-character-field-with-commas/#comment-112436 TomLiotta Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:40:03 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/numeric-string-in-character-field-with-commas/#comment-112436 Did you try to search at all for a solution? An answer was given in the forum just a week ago. — Tom

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