Can we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to
alphabetic field? If yes what are the way doing this?

Answer Posted / jayaprabhu

we can move the numeric to alphanumeric or alphabetic and
vive versa only using the redefines.

this concept is useful when you want to have only one copy
book field need to change to num/aplha for particular
program.

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