>>Hi,
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>>I have a code in the program that converts a string of numbers (not a number but a string of numbers) according to the second parameter of Transform(). For example,
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>>nNumber = 67849
>>cMask = 'M XXXXXXXXXX'
>>cNumber = transform( alltrim(str(nNumber)) + "@R" + cMask)
>>*-- the result, cNumber, should be 'M 67849'
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>>The above works unless the cMask is 'A XXXXXXXXXX'
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>>Why does the 'A' make a difference?
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>>TIA
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>Not only A, but your code (as corrected by Naoto) won't work with the alphabetic characters H, L, N, U, W, X, Y, either, because they have a functional meaning for the construction and application of the mask.
Thank you. I will have to change my approach from using "@R " to some other (parsing probably) way.
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