Re: EDTWRD for IP adress

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

Denis wrote:
>I have a field that holds an IP address (numeric 12 digits).
>I want to display/print it as 999.999.999.999
>
>I tought I'd used the edit word EDTWRD('   .   .   .   ')
>
>But this does not work because the "." is considered the decimal
>separatior.
>
>Is there an easy way to format an IP address on a report?

On V5R1, you could try:

%XLATE('?':'.':%EDITW(IPADDR:'   ?   ?   ?   '))

BTW, are you sure that's really what you want?  Normally, IP
addresses are stored in 32 bits.  If you treat that as
a unsigned numeric, you only get 10 digits.  You have to
convert each byte individually to a number in the range 1-255
to get to the quoted quad notation.

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com