Re: EDTMSK and EDTWRD ?

Here is a paragraph from the dds manual that might point to a way?  I've
done this once, a long time ago, and all I remember is that it worked for
the problem I had then, whatever that was.

 
User-defined edit codes:
Edit codes 5 through 9 are user-defined edit codes. A user-defined edit code
can do more editing than an OS/400 edit code. For example, you may need to
edit numbers that include hyphens (such as telephone numbers) or more than
one decimal point. You can use user-defined edit codes for these functions.
These edit codes are named QEDIT5, QEDIT6, QEDIT7, QEDIT8, and QEDIT9, and
can be referred to in DDS or a high-level language program by number (5, 6,
7, 8, or 9).
 
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 09/11/05 13:03:42
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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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