yes, nora is correct - that is the manipulation that i need. i have used PIPEs to convert all the | to ¦ to help in reading the pipeline
i understand the literal stage, but the SPECS seems to not be complete with a stage separator before it is complete. should it be: | SPECS FS ¦ Field 2 | a: etc. also, i don't find anything in the manual about 'print a*' can you explain that part of the pipe? >> Now it is a piece of cake: PIPE Literal ||1234.56|| | Specs FS || a: F2 . Print a*10000000 PIC 99999999999999 1 | cons 2007/11/15, Graves Nora E < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I can answer the COBOL part, anyway. :-) He needs a resulting field that will appear this way for each example: 0 00000000000000 1 00000010000000 12 00000120000000 123.4 00001234000000 1234.56 00012345600000 >> prg Phillip Gramly Systems Programmer Communications Data Group Champaign, IL
