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Just a quick reminder:

People often forget that edit code "X" preserves leading zeros.

On 9/25/2012 10:43 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
I think fieldb needs to be alpha, not packed. I forget whether %char
preserves the leading zeroes - I think not. I believe I used %editw for
this - the format string was 7 characters long, started with a zero -
'0 ' - so that zero-suppression was not applied to the number.

fieldb = %editw(%dec(fielda : 6 : 0) : '0 ');


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