Re: DATE in *PRTF: Missing leading Zero

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL - I have to chuckle at Joe's use of "hack" about this technique - it 
was always what you had to do, although it wasn't always obvious, as I 
recall. I just looked at the documentation, and none of the examples 
show exactly this kind of edit.

Vern

On 7/3/2020 9:49 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> Hello Joe,
>
> Am 08.06.2020 um 14:43 schrieb Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Patrik, I have some dim memories of being able to hack the edit word by adding an extra zero to the front.  I haven't had a chance to try this today, but I thought you could add an "extra" leading zero.  So you could create an edit word like this:
> >
> > '0bb/bb/bbbb' (where "b" is a blank)
> >
> > Note that there are actually nine positions specified.  Then if you ran that against an 8.0 field, you'd get 00/00/0000 with no leading blank.  I could be mis-remembering this, but I just thought I'd bring it up.
> Works like a charm! Thanks *a lot*!!
>
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