There's really nothing that can beat trying it out. Moving the Sig Start earlier is usually all you need; except it has what I consider to be the perverse effect of starting significance with the following digit. Which makes it impossible to include the first leading zero naturally (because SoS picks up a digit, and suppresses it if 0). Sometimes using C'0' as the pad works out; sometimes, you have to coerce the input field to be longer than (1 more digits) than you want to display.
sas On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 12:23 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Dave, you raise a good point. ED is powerful but tricky. You would have to > read the PoOp very carefully. Sorry to wimp out here, but it has been a > long > time for me. I fear you are correct: that ED will happily use the > significance starter as a fill byte, with unhappy results. For the "no > blank > fill" case you may have to ZAP the data to a larger field, or use UNPK and > OI. > > Charles > >
