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Subject: RE: Edit word question
From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:45:48 -0400
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>I tried that, and got a compiler error that the
>output size exceeded the end postition.  This
>didn't make sense, since the end position was
>190, and according to my calcs, 23 elements * 8
>(field len = 6, + 2 pos for decimal point and sign) = 184.

A little known sentence in the RPG manual indicates that the compiler
inserts 2 blanks in front of elements if an edit code is used.  See the
section in the Reference manual entitled Combination Edit Codes, just above
the table.  Chapter 14.

Buck

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