Zero Filled Integers

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Feb 27 07:02:56 PST 2007


On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:02:04AM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:19:43 -0500):
> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:13:55AM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> [...]
> > >     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.
> 
> This feature was added way back in 4.8.  Prior to that, you either
> needed different edits for each length, or had to have the data
> already right-justified.

"Way back".

:-)

I started in 3.0, and did quite the lion's share of my coding in 4.1
and 4.5. 

Ok; 4.8's about where I thought.  Thanks.

Cheers,
-- jra
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