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

You could try to use QECEDT API to edit the numeric value (no sign please). If 
value is negative, then eval x$ = '(' + %trim(edtval) + ')' or something along 
that line. 

Eric A DeLong
ericadelong@pmsc.com

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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.)


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