Re: EDTWRD for IP adress

Hans' xlate example wouldn't work for the 12 digit ip, because of the need
to trim leading zeros from each segment.

xxx.xxx.001.xxx
isn't the same as
xxx.xxx.1.xxx

---original message----
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:'   ?   ?   ?   '))