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Recent content by Phatbeach
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Converting Packed Decimal to Character
Thanks for you're help, John, I'll keep on tweaking it to see if I can get it to work. By the way, tell your employer that you deserve a raise!!!- Phatbeach
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- Forum: Visual Basic (Classic)
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Converting Packed Decimal to Character
For some reason I left off the top of the code! It should be as follows: Private Sub Form_Load() Open "c:\input.txt" For Input As #1- Phatbeach
- Post #6
- Forum: Visual Basic (Classic)
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Converting Packed Decimal to Character
John, Your advice really helps, but I'm a 2-week (in)experienced VB programmer and I'd appreciate it if you'd help me out a little bit more! The text file I'm reading that has the Packed Decimal data also contains Character data in the same row(yes, this makes things much more exciting). I...- Phatbeach
- Post #5
- Forum: Visual Basic (Classic)
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Converting Packed Decimal to Character
I'm trying to convert a field in a text file from Packed Decimal (COMP-3 COBOL) to Character in VB 6. I pull a file (via ftp) from an IBM mainframe that has one field in Packed Decimal, with the other fields being Character. Right now, I read in a line from the file as a Variant data type...- Phatbeach
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- Forum: Visual Basic (Classic)
