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I am having an issue where the datget on a field within my .frl is always stripping leading zero’s. VERSION: Version 5.7 Rev2
AIX OS Level: 6.1.0.0
Message excerpt
MESSAGE = B0000118399179QASTIFFLER, MARIA
Rec_Type = B0 ( ch 2 bytes )
Acct_Num = 000118399179 ( nm 12 bytes )
Name = QASTIFFLER, MARIA (ch 25 bytes )
Code snippet ( example )
set ghIn [grmcreate -msg $mh frl name.frl]
set outputVal [datget [grmfetch $ghIn Acct_Num] VALUE]
In the above, outputVal always has the value with leading zero’s stripped ( in this case 118399179 )
Is there a way to preserve / extract the whole field using GRM
Thanks
Andre’
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Try redefining the DATATYPE for ACCT_NUM from “nm” to “ch”. It’s a matter of whether you treat the incoming field as a numeric value or as a string of characters. For numeric values, 00001 and 1 both equate to 1, but as character strings they are entirely different. It’s the same when doing comparisons in Tcl and the difference between {00001 eq 1} and {00001 == 1}
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Chris,
Thanks for your input, but I failed to mention in the initial post that I experimented and tried all those options for datatypes in the original .frl that defines the record layout.
Regardless of ch, nm, ai……the leading zero’s are always stripped on the fetch.
I just setup the test again, to make sure I was not dreaming and alas ! still strips them
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