RE: Dashes on DDS (NEW - One other question).

Hi Brian

It depends on how you edit it.  If you have comma separators and
negative signs, CR, etc they'll increase the field size on the display.
If I remember correctly, the default in SDA is to have no comma
separators but to include the negative sign.  In that case you would
have five spaces on the display unless you specify an appropriate edit
code (e.g. Z)

Hope it helps

Jonathan 
www.astradyne-uk.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Piotrowski
Sent: 23 June 2005 20:44
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Dashes on DDS (NEW - One other question).

Thanks to everyone who responded.

One other question - when I have a 4S 0 field in a PF, does it take up 5
characters on a screen output?

Thanks again,

Brian. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Carolla [mailto:carolla@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:30 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Dashes on DDS

Hello Brian

<snip>
On 6/23/05, Brian Piotrowski <bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> 
> Can someone please remind me the easy way to fill a line with dashes
as
> opposed to creating a line with position that is '--------------',
etc.



I usually have a text file on my desktop called SCRATCH.TXT, and I store

useful snippets like this("-------...", "SELECT * FROM", etc). I map the

file to CTRL-ALT-N, then it's as easy as CTRL-ALT-N, Double click,
CTRL-C, 
ALT-TAB, CTRL-V...