Steve Bricker wrote:
I see the scenario does not give enough to really allow someone to
formulate an answer.
An excellent reminder to write no code until the user's requirements are
fully understood!
OTOH a little rapid prototyping can be a fast path to discovery of
requirements.
Allow me to clarify a bit. The three PD fields are each 10 positions
in length. Using the example below, a field with
X'0000000000000000014C' would need to be expanded to a 19-character
field of '0000000000000000014'.
So you are going to ignore the sign nibble?
Modify the code I wrote - ignore the sign; treat results as positive.
At the end add "%019i" % value
Steve Bricker
On Thu 13/11/08 10:14 , Steve Bricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
I am trying to build an application for work that FTPs a file from
an IBM mainframe to my Windows desktop then process it. The
EBCDIC-to-ASCII conversion works nicely (using a BAT file I
created) except for three packed-decimal data fields (for example,
X'0000000000000000014C' is equal to integer 14). I am assuming I
need to go through this byte-by-byte to convert. Is that the best
approach, or is there a better way?
Steve Bricker
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