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Old 09-19-2008
convert Regular decimals to Packed decimals
Hi,

I am trying to find if there is a way to convert regular decimal values to Paced decimal values. I tried to find a c program but I could get a Packed converted to regular decimal not the other way round.

If not unix please let me know if any other progrimming language I can use to do this.

Thanks.
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Old 09-19-2008
Hi.

If you are comfortable in perl, there is this module at http://cpan.org/:
Code:
Convert::IBM390 -- functions for manipulating mainframe data

providing, for example:
Quote:
packeb TEMPLATE LIST

This function is much like Perl's built-in "pack". It takes a list of values and packs it into an EBCDIC record (structure). If called in list context, it will return a list of one element. The TEMPLATE is patterned after Perl's pack template but allows fewer options. The following characters are allowed in the template:
...
P (1) Packed-decimal field with F signs for positive numbers
(sometimes called "unsigned") (default length = 8)
You might also Google for packed decimal unix

I have used a COBOL compiler on Linux: OpenCOBOL - an open-source COBOL compiler ... cheers, drl
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Old 09-20-2008
There are a number of different types of packed decimals. If you want IEEE 754r:2008 types have a look at the decPacked module in the IBM decNumber library alphaWorks : decNumber : Overview. It is witten in ANSI C.
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