I haven't tested this, but try: right(variable, 4, '00'x) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: REXX leading zeros
They say there are no stupid questions... I have the following statement in REXX code (linkpgm): some_parm = '00000100'x That means 256 decimal. However I want to replace '00000100' with some variable, a result of some calculations Let's imagine, x=a+b-c How to transform x to a proper format for some_parm? Note: I have to keep the length of the variable, so '100' is not a solution. I've tried the following: x=a+b-c /*let's say x=110+156-10 */ x2=d2x(x) /*x2 is 100, no leading zero's*/ x3=RIGHT(x2,8,0) /* now x3 is 00000100, but it is text string */ x4=x2c(x3) /* x4 consist of 4 bytes, characters are unprintable, but it is '00000100'x */ It works, but isn't it reinventing the wheel? That means, am I missing some simpler way? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
