Supress leading 0's while writing to a file using Easytrieve

Kumail Fazal · New User Joined: 29 May 2007 Posts: 12 Location: Mysore

Hi,
I am looking for a mechanism where in you can supress the leading zero's while writing the number(count) to a file.
The problem here is, say i have a counter which i defined as

WS-COUNT W 9 N MASK (BWZ 'ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZ9')

when i increment this counter based on certain conditions and finally when i display the number on spool i am able to mask the leading zero
but
when i use the same variable to write (after moving it to the file variable) i am not able to supress the leading zeros

Thanks

guptae · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:51 pm

Hi Kamil,

Its because ur file variable may not be have mask ...

Kumail Fazal · New User Joined: 29 May 2007 Posts: 12 Location: Mysore

Hi guptae,
i have tried masking my file variable, but it hasn't been of much help, still it is not been able to supress the leading zeros.
for ex my file variable has been defined as
OUTFILE1-NUMS 53 9 N MASK (BWZ 'ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZ9')

If you know a way out please let me know?