Last Charactor ?

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/19/2012 12:48 AM, Ken Cole wrote:
> Scott,
>
> Try the highest printable ASCII character which from memory is a ~.
>
> So, ~~~~~~YYYY/MM/DD where the date component can be your 9999/31/12
> or the other suggestion using PFCMARK if set in your environment.

Since the data is a 4-digit year, PFCMARK is irrelevant for it.  Although I 
don't know what data he's storing in that field, it is not bounded by PFCMARK.

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>> I'm building a index select processing and wondered what the LAST record
>> could be ?
>>
>> What would be the last entry for this field ?
>>
>> Extended Index field :-
>>
>> AAAAAAYYYY/MM/DD
>>
>> 6 Alpha Code with allup edit and a backward date
>>
>> So would the LAST possible entry be :
>>
>> ZZZZZZ9999/99/99
>>
>> Or should it include other characters such as '.,*@~' if so what would be
>> the last character available ?

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Kenneth Brody