Re: Numeric to Character Conversions

Sally, thanks for your reply. i've tried you idea of assigning 'passed2' before its passed to the function to a char3. by doing it this way i have been able to trap for the ERROR -1207 i mentioned. I dont know if you read my other post which says the value of the serial column will NEVER EXCEED 999. Of course ,if it did a FORMS -1207 error would stop the program. so i have not been able to find out what causes the -1207 if my 'passed2' can not exceed 999. any way it seems checking the STATUS when you enter the function 'some_function(' is too late ,the program has already stopped >From: Sally Woolrich <Sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk> <snip> > DEFINE passed1 LIKE some_table.column1 ->> CHAR(12) > passed2 LIKE other_table.column2 ->> SERIAL > > LET passed1 = "11" > LET passed2 = 59 > > CALL some_function(passed1,passed2) > > FUNCTION some_function(key_arg1,key_arg2) > DEFINE key_arg1 LIKE some_table.column1, > key_arg2 CHAR(3), > loc_num INTEGER > <rest snipped> << 'passed2' will be (in effect) an integer, but 'key_arg2' is char(3). << Is this the cause of the problem? Have you tried defining a char(3) << in the top bit, and the 'LET char3 = passed2'?