[Omaha.pm] Zoned Decimal/Packed Data

[Jay Swackhamer]

yes, thanks, I've been looking at that Convert::IBM390, and it looks  
like it should work for what I need to do, just was hoping someone  
else had experience.

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Quoting Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net>:

> On 2/12/2010 7:12 AM, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
>> Does anyone have any pointers/snippets/links for working summing zoned
>> decimal data?
>>
>> I am working on a perl program to replace the functionality of
>> 'syncsort' and have gotten to an option that summarizes fields in the
>> datafiles, and it's in a 'zoned decimal' format.
>>
>> This portion of code will take the sorted file, and based on key fields,
>> summarize other fields, and put back one record into the output.
>
> I haven't done anything like that. Do these help at all?
>
>    http://search.cpan.org/search/?query=zoned+decimal&mode=all
>
>    http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pack.html
>
>    http://www.google.com/search?q=perl+"zoned+decimal"
>
> I'm sure we could help with general Perl questions.  :)
>
> j
>
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