Re: Enter minus and the } character

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth

I think this has always been this way - there was a thread recently that 
told people to use the S instead of Y, as I recall, to take care of 
exactly the situation you describe.

Now it's early and it might have been just the opposite! Memory fails me!

Vern

On 12/8/2010 8:43 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> I am not sure that what I am seeing is what I think I am seeing.  Maybe
> it has always been like this, but this seems like new behavior.
>
> I have a DSPF with a 5/0 in a numeric field.**
> **
> ADDDAYS       5Y 0B 16 19EDTCDE(N)**
> **
> It  worked just fine, and when Enter(-) was keyed, I would see the } at
> the right side.  It is what I expected.
>
> I then changed a line of code up above, unrelated to this field, and the
> screen would no longer compile.  I tried various EDTCDE()s and finally,
> in desperation I tried**
>
> **ADDDAYS    5S 0B 16 19
>
> Well didn't my socks fall off!  It compiled fine, then I tried it out
> and Enter(-) gave me  the field with the number followed by an ordinary
> minus sign ( no } ).  It had not been processed; it behaved just like it
> always has, except for displaying the number properly.
>
> Has it always been like this, and I didn't realize it?
>
> http://www.martinvt.com/Code_Samples/Date_Math/date_math.html is where
> it happened, if you want to look at it
>
> ****