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[SK2007]

Hi,

I have some problem while comparing signed value. I wondenr if you could help me.

My input is

[Frank Yaeger]

Your problem is that your values are unnormalized. Some have decimal places and some don't. So you have to normalize the values to all have the same number of decimal places before you can do the INCLUDE. You would normalize the values with INREC and then use OUTFIL INCLUDE on the normalized values.

Some questions before I can show you how to do this:

You're using 11,10 for the numeric value, but it appears that it is really in 11,9. What position does the third field actually start in - it looks like it's in 20 - is it really in 21?.

Can your values have more than two decimal places (e.g. 10.053?). If so, what is the maximum number of decimal places a value can have?
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[SK2007]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for quick response.
Yes, the third field starts from 21st position. I hvae only 2 decimal places.

Thanks
SK2009

[Frank Yaeger]

I believe these DFSORT control statements will give you what you want: