Michael Anderson writes



Thanks  to all who replied to my original post. The COBOL report is now
reading the R4 data items correctly. ;-)

Now I need to be able  to update this data set from COBOL, and reverse the
conversion back to R4. The report was actually an extract/export to Excel.
The user will modify the spreadsheet an upload it back to M.P.E., where my
COBOL program will read it and update the R4 data item. I do not have the
Intrinsics manual, I borrowed one for ten minutes yesterday, and one of the
Intrinsics referenced in response to my original post wasn't even in the
intrinsics manual. I searched docs.hp.com, and couldn't find it. So, does a
intrinsic exist that will convert a numeric string to R4?

Again many thanks,
Michael Anderson.
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Use the intrinsics "HPEXTIN" to convert a string to an IEEE real and then
"HPFPCONVERT" if you need an HP real.

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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