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Message Posted: Fri, 24 May 2002 @ 14:57:08 GMT





     
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Subj:   Re: Format statement and floating point numbers
 
From:   Michael McBride



John, thanks for your input, the emplyee_nbr is stored in the database as a varchar(15) 'charcter string'. It is the required output parameters that pose the problem. The output specification for this particular application requires the various numbers to be output in a 20 byte field, right justified and zero filled from the left. I cannot change this requirement. To get the right justification, I cast the internal character sting to a floating point number, it is the zero filling that I am having dificulty with...





     
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