Zero Filled Integers

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:13:55AM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting J. Ryan Kelley (Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:28:57 -0500):
> > Is there an edit type to create zero filled integers?  I have an EDI
> > transaction that requires that certain integer fields are zero filled.
> > eg the value '600' in a 6 digit field would need to be passed as
> > '0006000'.
> >
> > Filepro 5.0.13R4 on Solaris
> 
> It comes with filePro.  I think it's called "0rj".  If you don't
> have it, it's real simple:
> 
>     0rj   \0\ {*}
> 
> This will right-justify and zero-fill any value.

Do you know what release that happened in, Ken?  Cause I remember quite
clearly a) our having to do it ourselves) and b) it being a bitch that
required separate edits for each length of field.

Of course, other things I remember clearly aren't really true, so...  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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