Hi,

I can help you in writing a perl subroutine to convert packed decimal to
decimal integer.

so , let spec it out:

define the following parameters :

input parms to funtion pac2dec?
output from function pac2dec ?
return value?

Thanks
Michael


On Wed, 15 May 2002 09:23:35 -0700, Braun Brelin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hello folks,
>
>I'm trying to access data from an IMAGE database.  I'm
>able to retrieve data using DbGet(), unfortunately,
>some of the fields are in a packed unsigned format.
>Is there some sort of conversion utility or some sort
>of option to DbGet() which will convert the packed
>format to ASCII?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Braun Brelin
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