Re: [open-cobol-list] programming problem

[Bill Klein]

With a "conforming" compiler, you should use the NUMVAL intrinsic function.
I am not positive that this is supported with OpenCOBOL yet. 

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> From: John Culleton [mailto:address@hidden 
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> Given a field in a line sequential file that is the result of a web 
> page, and a 7 character alphanumeric field that may be in the form 
> 1.2345   
> 12.345
> 6
> etc. all left justified, how to put the data in a numeric field with 
> the least effort,  so that computations can be done.  
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