Thank you all to those who've pointed me to NATIONAL-OF and DISPLAY-OF intrinsic functions. For some reason I missed them when looking at the list of intrinsic functions. While calling the C runtime library is an interesting exercise, using native COBOL functionality when in COBOL is superior. ZA
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