Guessing that "sign overstruck numbers" means that the sign of a string
of digits is embedded into the first digit, rather than consuming
an "extra" character position in fixed width fields, then there wouldn't
be a string of them, but a string might have one of them in the
first position.
Except
Dirk Bremer wrote:
>
> I would like to do something simple with a ^, |, or & to translate sign-overstruck
>characters to their corresponding numeric values
> and vice versa. For example, the sign-overstruck characters equals the following
>numbers:
>
> { = -0
> A = -1
> B = -2
> C = -3
> D = -
