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

Liu,

At 10:22 AM 4/13/98 +0800, you 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)
>Coding something with the edit mask like bbb,bbb,b(0.bb does not work.
>It gives 2,3(1.00 instead of the desired (2,341.00
>Can any programming guru please tell me if the above is even possible?
>Thanks.
>KK Liu.
>(A possible solution is to play around with the user-defined edit codes
>or even the system value QCURSYM but I am not too keen on this as it
>will affect the whole system.)

 I think that user defined edit codes should work for this.  If not, this
is certainly possible using the ILE RPG BIFs.

 -mark

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