Used to move data within a field to the left or right boundary
of the field, or center it within the field.
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The JUSTIFY statement can be used to format data entered into
or moved to any field. (For automatic formatting, refer to the SET command earlier in this section.) As is true of
all formatting statements, JUSTIFY has an immediate effect on the data in the memory
buffer; the formatted data is then available for display or copying
into the application. When the user enters data into a field for
which formatting is specified, the data is formatted as soon as ENTER or an appropriate function key is pressed. Thus, FORMSPEC
formatting is done before data is written to the data or batch file.
(In contrast, reformatting through REFORMAT, described in Section
5, is done after data is collected, edited, and written to the batch
file.)
