Re: Supress All Zeros in Zero Fields

The SDA editor, in a single field, edit codes - 
you can press F1 for help and get a list of codes.
                                                 
Edit Code                No    CR   -Sign  -Sign 
Description              Sign  Sign  (R)    (L)  
                                                 
Commas and zero balances    1    A    J    N     
Commas                      2    B    K    O     
Zero balances               3    C    L    P     
No commas or zero balances  4    D    M    Q     
User-defined edit codes     5-9                  
Date edit (4 digits)        W                    
Date edit                   Y                    
Suppress leading zeros      Z                    

jim franz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Captain Jerry" <captainjerry@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: Supress All Zeros in Zero Fields


> Morning everyone,
> 
> I have a display file with numeric fields defined as 7,2 (EDTCDE 1)  When
> these fields have no value in them, they display ____.00      The user
> doesn't like the zeros and for the life of me, I can't figure out how to
> display *Blanks in the fields (without having to make them character fields
> and convert, convert, convert!)
> 
> //Captain.Jerry/