Bill Woodger
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Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 7309 Location: Inside the Matrix
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Looking in some random PL/I manual located with google:
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R
On input, R specifies that the EBCDIC characters } through R represent
negative values and the digits 0 through 9 represent positive values.
On output, R specifies that the associated position contains one of the
EBCDIC characters } through R if the input data represents negative
values; otherwise, it contains one of the digits 0 through 9. For example:
DECLARE X FIXED DECIMAL(3);
GET EDIT (X) (P'R99');
sets X to 132 on finding '1327' in the next 3 positions of the input stream,
but -132 on finding 'J32'.
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I suspect it is the same in your manual. I suggest that you check, so you can also become aware of other options for PICture. |
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