Re: EDTWRD for IP adress

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does this schema also for for IP 6 and the new IP addressing schema?



On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:

> 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
>
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