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[Phantom]

Hi,

I received a request to compare two files based on a 3 char Key field. (The field is an alphanumeric field). At one particular instance the key in the first file contained a value of '6E3' and the key in the Second file contained a value of '608'. As per the EBCDIC sequence 6E3 is less than 608. But the program control went inside the greater than condition. Later I found that it considered 6E3 to be the Exponential form 6E+003 ie 6000.

So the result of the comparison was incorrect. Can anyone of you please let me know is there any way in REXX to handle this kind of problems. I fixed a temporary solution by prefixing the key field by 'A'. But I would like a better solution.

Thanks,

[warp5]

Please post your compare statement so it can be examined.

[Phantom]

Sure, Here is it. Note: I'm only posting first half of my code

[Mervyn]

Phantom, If you need to enforce a character comparison, then I think you need to use the strict comparison operator '<<'.

Check out this link:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IKJ3A330/2.2.2.3?SHELF=&DT=20000710164756
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