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HP ALLBASE/4GL Developer Quick Reference Guide

Edit Codes 

The HP ALLBASE/4GL edit codes and their meanings are:

  Code   Meaning 

   X     Any printable character.

   A     Alphabetic characters only (A to z, extended characters, or space).

   U     Forced uppercase.  Same as X edit code, but shifts all lowercase alphabetic
         characters to uppercase.

   K     Alphanumeric characters only (A to z, 0 to 9, extended characters, and
         underscore).

   N     Unsigned number (0 to 9, a period ".", or a comma ",").

   S     Signed number.  Same as N edit code, but may include + or -.

   Q     Question.  Y, y, N, or n only.  Any characters beyond the first character in
         the field are ignored.

   D     Date field.  Must be eight characters long.  The date may be either MM/DD/YY
         or DD/MM/YY (depending on the system-wide date format) where MM, DD, and YY
         represent the month, day, and year respectively.

   T     Date field, defaulting to the current date.

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