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ha.rajamohamed · Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 71 Topics: 22

Hi..

When I read my input file Numeric filed of 10 bytes.. 9(10) .. I am receiving " 1000"... first few bytes are spaces and numeric values comes in...
When I validate the field for Numeric.. its failing since spaces are there..

There are 500+ fileds.. where I can't use Inspect..replace option...
Is there any other way to remove to the spaces and take only the numeric portion...

Thanks in advance...

Raja Mohamed

shekar123 · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:55 am Post subject:

ha.rajamohamed,

Can you explain what are you trying to do ? Are u reading from a File into a record structure declared as say X(80) and that structure is divided into subfields.

Can you post you sample input file contents and the cobol record structure ?
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ha.rajamohamed · Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 71 Topics: 22

Hi,,
The input file length is 18000....
We are reading in to a copy book layout... contains these Numeric fields..
If we receives it in a alphanumeric fileds it not a issue,
The issue is.. while we reading .. in the Numeric fileds. It contains spaces in it...
example..
in 9(10)... the values is " 11"... Eight spaces followed by 2 numeric values...
Now I need only the last two numeric values.. how to supress the spaces...

Thanks
Raja Moahamed

shekar123 · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:12 am Post subject:

ha.rajamohamed,

I am still not clear about the requirement but what my understanding goes the way below:

kolusu · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:49 am Post subject:

Look up NUMVAL and NUMVAL-C intrinsic functions.

ha.rajamohamed · Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 71 Topics: 22

Kolusu...
Thanks..... it working fine with NUMVAL....
Thanks shekar.. for the information....

Regards
Raja Mohamed