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Numeric Directive

The NUMERIC directive allows you to treat a data item as an unsigned integer when it is declared as alphanumeric. You might use this when the data stored in the item is always numeric.

Syntax 

$XFD NUMERIC

  or

*(( XFD NUMERIC ))

Example 

$xfd numeric

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