Re: EDTMSK and EDTWRD ?

Its correct, if I put '0' in 1st position of edtwrd, then the literals or 
dashes displayed, otherwise not, although the protected spaces work.

Is there any way, to display the dashes without any values.

Best Regards,

Luqman





"M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:6.1.2.0.2.20050911122128.06e55710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  I think that it should look something like this:
> EDTWRD('0  /  / ')
> EDTMSK('  &  &  ')
>
>  If your workstation controller supports the masking feature, the cursor 
> should automatically skip over the slashes.
>
>  -mark
>
> At 9/9/05 07:08 PM, you wrote:
>>Luqman,
>>
>>I use the wrd/msk combination for dates and discovered that if the field 
>>already has a value the dashes are shown and protected.  An empty field 
>>does not show the dashes.  I think that this is a result of the zero 
>>suppression in the EDTWRD('  /  / 0')
>>
>>hth
>>
>>Luqman wrote:
>>
>>>Using EDTMSK and EDTWRD keywords did this, but SDA not displaying the 
>>>Dashes, just protecting the places where Dashes are placed, how can I 
>>>display the Dashes ?
>>>
>>>Best Regards,
>>>
>>>Luqman
>
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