Date:         Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:04:49 +0100
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From:         Cem Turgay <tur@EUROCONTROL.DE>
Organization: Eurocontrol
Subject:      Re: ??? How to set NUM vars to type CHAR ???

jschult@IBM.NET wrote:
> How can I set a DATATYPE CHAR to a variable that is inherently NUM?
> I need to have a numeric value be either declared or converted to a
> character value for comparision to a database value.
>
> Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
 
But there is no (real) numeric things in Rexx !
Everything (numerics, bin, hex, dec etc.)
hold as char bytes. I can't understand what type of data you are
geting from db but I'll say 2 solution:
 
1. If you get a binary value from DB to rexx variable 'bin' you can
   compare it like:
 
   If C2D(bin) = <any number> Then ...
 
2. If you get a character value from DB to rexx variable 'chr' you
   can compare it like:
 
   If chr = <any number> Then ...
 
Cem Turgay