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>John,
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>1. Determine the position of the number in the record
>2. read the 7? characters as a character
>3. strip off the 5 last characters
>4. translate them in to decimal number 0..9 a=10 ... f=15
>5. take the first number, multiply it by 16^4, the second by 16^3 etc
>6. add all these numbers.
>7. Divide by 10^
>8. multply by -1 if the first character is C.
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>If your specification is correct, and if I have not made any spec error,
>you should be OK.
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>HTH,
>
>Marc

Marc:

Thanks so much for your assistance! This is beginning to make some sense.
JD