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

>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 use this method to output and retrieve numerics from html entry fields.
It's a little cludgy, but it works and might be just what you need:  

The screen field is alpha, so you may need to do a little extra editing if it 
is input capable to keep them from entering anything
other than 0-9, ( ) , . and $.  the sub-procedure "str2flt is a standard "C" 
routine that converts an alpha string to a floating
point decimal.

to output to screen:

DDS:

A           EDITFLD    12A  B  2  2

........

RPG4:

To output to screen:

 * if negative, append parenteses before and after edited numeric.

C                   IF        NUMFLD < 0
C                   EVAL      EDITFLD = '(' + %trim(%editc(NUMFLD:'1')) + ')'
C                   ELSE
C                   EVAL      EDITFLD = %trim(%editc(NUMFLD:'1'))
C                   END

If you need to read from screen:

D Str2Flt         Pr             8F   ExtProc('cvtefnd')      
D  Str                            *   Value                   
D  StrLen                       10U 0 Value                   
D  Mask                          3    Const

D FltResult       S              8F

....

 * check if field is numeric.
                                                                 ==
C    '('            CHECK     EDITFLD         POS                10

 *  replace parentheses with zeroes.

C    '()':'00'      XLATE     EDITFLD         EDITFLD

 * convert alpha string to floating point, then to numeric 

C                   Eval      FltResult = Str2Flt( %Addr(EDITFLD) :       
C                                                  %Len(%trimr(EDITFLD)) :
C                                                  '$,.' )               

C                   Eval      NUMFLD = FltResult                         
C                   END                                                  

 * if value had parentheses, make negative.

C                   IF        *IN10 = *on
C                   Z-SUB     NUMFLD       NUMFLD
C                   END



You will need to compile this program with parameter "BNDDIR(QC2LE)".

Hope this helps a little,

Rick
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