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Clauses
Syntax Summary
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repeatable-edit-descriptors
specify data conversion to the GUARDIAN Formatter for printing the report-item
values. Valid values for repeatable-edit-descriptors are:
A [ w ] for alphanumeric values.
I w [ . m ] for integer values.
F w .d [ . m ] for fixed point values.
M mask for a template to combine literals and values.
where
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 combination of the characters 9, Z, V, .(period) and literals. The
combination must be enclosed within apostrophes (‘ ’) or greater than and
less than symbols (< >).
"[" decorations "]"
specify character strings that can be added to a report-item depending on a
condition. The syntax is:
conditions location char-string
where
conditions
are one or more of the following:
M add char-string if value is negative.
N add char-string if value is null.
P add char-string if value is positive.
Z add char-string if value is zero.
O add char-string if overflow condition occurs.