KTRUNCATE

KTRUNCATE

Truncates a numeric value to a specified length

Category: DBCS

Syntax
Arguments
Details

Syntax

KTRUNCATE(number,length)

Arguments

number: is numeric.
length: is numeric and integer.

Details

The KTRUNCATE function truncates a full-length number (stored as a double) to a smaller number of bytes, as specified in length and pads the truncated bytes with 0s. The truncation and subsequent expansion duplicate the effect of storing numbers in less than full length and then reading them.

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