Enform Plus Reference Manual

Enform Plus Syntax Summary
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Clauses
nonrepeatable-edit-descriptors
specify some general ways report-items are to be printed.
nonrepeatable-edit-descriptors should not be specified without a
repeatable-edit-descriptor. Valid values for nonrepeatable-
edit-descriptors are:
repeatable-edit-descriptors
specify data conversion to the Guardian Formatter for printing the report-
item values. Valid values for repeatable-edit-descriptors are:
where
"["decorations"]"
specify character strings that can be added to a report-item depending on a
condition. The syntax is as follows:
conditions location char-string
where
conditions
are one or more of the following:
P multiplies value by 10**n; n is an integer.
S, SP, SS control plus (+) sign printing.
A [ w ] for alphanumeric values
Iw [ .m ] for integer values
Fw.d [ .m ] for fixed-point values
M mask for a template to combine literals and values
w specifies the width of the report-item.
m specifies the number of digits that appear to the left of the
decimal for fixed-point values and the minimum number of digits
for integer values
d specifies the number of digits to the right of the decimal.
mask is a combination of the characters 9, Z, V, . (period) and literals.
The combination must be enclosed within apostrophes (' ) or
greater-than and less-than symbols (< >).
M add char-string if value is negative.
N add char-string if value is null.