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The UNPAK routine is deprecated; we recommend you use the p data type instead of PAK and UNPAK. See Packed and implied-packed for information on the p data type. |
xcall UNPAK(record, field[, ...])
Arguments
record
The record that contains the compressed fields. (a)
field
One or more decimal fields to be restored. These fields must exist in the record and must be listed in ascending order as they appear in the record. (d)
Discussion
The UNPAK subroutine restores numeric data that has been compressed by the PAK subroutine.
Each packed field has the following length:
(number of characters/2) + 1
Examples
See PAK Examples.
