This is by far the easiest, if not the simplest, solution. There was, once upon a time, an example in an IBM pub, but for the life of me, I cannot recall where. Still, one TR will do it; create a result field whose bytes are indexes into the source value treated as a TR table such that only the numeric values are selected. Easy. Thanks for reminding me, Robin.
Mike At 01:34 AM 10/18/2016, you wrote: >Using TR in a different way omits the commas and decimal point, sign, >and any other funny characters. >To do this, you swap the roles of the translate table and the string >being translated. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "IBM Mainframe Assembler List" >To: >Cc: >Sent:Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:24:18 -0400 >Subject:Re: converting character to packed > > The TR command would leave all the non-numeric characters in the >data, translated as you specified, so you'd have to have a technique >to pass through the result to remove them. A TRT instruction would >help you find the non-numeric characters, but in this case it would be >considerably slower in execution than the character by character loop >approaches suggested. > > If the original manually-entered data is not edited as it's entered, >there could be many other characters besides "$",",","." and EBCDIC >numeric characters in it. That's something TRT could check for. > > Gary Weinhold > Senior Application Architect > > __________ > > On 2016-10-17 15:11, robi...@dodo.com.au wrote: > > Won't a TR followed by a PACK do this? >Email sent using Dodo Webmail
