Re: edit mask - Floating bracket sign (instead of $)

At 10:22 AM 4/13/98 +0800, Liu Kean Keong wrote:
>My colleague wants to code a program to generate nagative values in
>brackets and not with a minus sign nor with a CR sign. Problem is that
>she wants the leading bracket to float like the $ sign.
>Eg.
>        (89.00)
>   (2,341.00)

I did this many years ago by setting the currency symbol in the RPG H-spec to 
'('. This does not require changing the system value. You must test output and 
only use the floating currency symbol if the value is negative, so it is not 
transparent logic, but it does work.

hth
Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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