Re: RPG400 SDA query?

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>on 10/24/97at 10, the Great and Grand  Wazir Vern Hamberg
><hambergv@goldengate.net> said:
>
>
>
Again, as far as I'm concerned, I don't <bold>know</bold> that
>
<bold>anything</bold> can't be done, so I'll always look first.
>
>While I am inclined to agree, here's a wee challenge for you:
>
>Accountant types like their debits and credits shown as:
> a) absolute numbers, followed by "dr" for positive numbers
>        and "cr" for negative numbers, or:
> b) the negative sign in the front, or:
> c) negative numbers shown in brackets, as in ($112,345.67)
>
>I have tried for years to figure out how to make user-defined edit codes
>to do these for me.
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>Booth Martin
>---------------------------------------------------



Waitawaitawaitaminute...

Doesn't RPG allow for CR/DR and floating leading negatives?  (I'm not sure
about parenthesis)

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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