IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG

RPG Example to remove Letters from Telephone Number field in RPG ILE

RPG Example to remove Letters from Telephone Number Just working on a project to create an American IRS 1099 Extract File. Lots of field data management rules in the file thats going to be sent to the IRS. One of them is that all telephone number fields must be numeric only left adjusted. Of course, …

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Programming, IBM i, RPG

Extract Numbers from a String using RPGLE

RPG EXAMPLE to read NUMERIC from ALPHAMERIC AKA: how to select only the number from an address in a field, or file data A little while ago, I wanted to extract out the numerics from a string of data: For example (a) if I feed in a phone number like “(540)-123 – 1234” but I just …

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