On 1/4/2013 4:02 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
Chapter 8 (Decimal Instructions) of the current PrOp contains full discussions of the EDIT and EDIT AND MARK machine instructions, which perform these operations elegantly, efficiently, and compactly.
The OP asked for a way to remove commas from an EBCDIC "numeric" string; I see no way of using ED or EDMK to do this. The second question raised, of inserting commas, may have a model dependent answer. It's not clear whether packing a variable length number, then editing that would be faster than a translate after moving to a work area with pre- or post-fixed blank and comma.
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