FROM

Synopsis

HELP:   Convert from a real number data type to a neutral FL5 element
TYPE:   OBJECT
SYNTAX: FROM(FORMAT.{BIN(TYPE=SYSTEM,ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL)/BCD(SIGNED,TYPE=UNPACKED/PACKED/ZONED,ZONE=ANY/ASCII/EBCDIC,FRACDIGITS=num)/INT(FRACDIGITS=num,ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL,WIDTH=num/W32/W64)/STR(CHRSET=NONE/SYSTEM/ASCII/UCS1/UTF8/EBCDIC/UCS2BE/UTF16BE/UCS2LE/UTF16LE/UCS4BE/UTF32BE/UCS4LE/UTF32LE/LOCAL,SEPARATOR=SYSTEM/PERIOD/COMMA/APOSTROPHE,GROUPSEPARATOR/MARKER=num/NON/OFF/SYSTEM/PERIOD/COMMA/SPACE/APOSTROPHE,VALUE='str',ALLOWTRUNC)},MINIMUM='str',MAXIMUM='str',MINEXCL,MAXEXCL)

Description

This object can be used to convert several representations of a floating point number into a neutral FL5-internal floating point data type.

Arguments