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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:17:32 CST
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- From: "Mr. Stanton W. Schmidt" <sschmidt@HP.UWSUPER.EDU>
- Subject: help with pic s9(05) sign trailing.
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- I have a data file produced by a mainframe application that is ascii text.
- I want to load the file into a dBase IV file. The problem is that some of
- the numeric fields were described in the mainframe cobol program as
- fieldname pic S9(05) sign trailing.
- what this does is put the sign into the last digit, so that when you look
- at the ascii representation of a number the last digit appears as a letter,
- depending on whether it is negative or not and the actual value of the
- digit. ex. 123 becomes 12C and -123 becomes 12L
- Is there a way to tell dBase how to handle this.
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- Stanton W. Schmidt
- University of Wisconsin-Superior
- sschmidt@uwsuper.edu
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