Monetary fields tend to have the finny characters in known positions, commas (or periods)every third position. The decimal point (period or comma) also is in a fixed position.All these are in fixed positions relative to the least significant digit of the amount.
----- Original Message ----- From: "IBM Mainframe Assembler List" To: Cc: Sent:Sat, 22 Oct 2016 14:46:47 -0600 Subject:Re: converting character to packed On 2016-10-18, at 13:19, Tony Harminc wrote: > On 18 October 2016 at 02:34, 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. > > This was the classic way to reverse a string, long before the > existence of the MVCIN instruction. > That can rearrange characters in a string and even eliminate "funny" characters, but I believe you need to know a priori where the funny characters are to omit their positions from the string being translated. -- gil Email sent using Dodo Webmail
