I'm trying to figure out why UD BASIC converts an empty string to five zeros on an OCONV "MR.." mask. USING the FMT function (FMT( ...., '5/0R')) works fine.
AE DICT APOPEN CKDATE Top of "CKDATE" in "DICT APOPEN", 7 lines, 119 characters. *--: p 001: I The date of the check that paid this invoice. 002: OCONV( TRANS( "APCHECKS", CHECK_ID, 4, "X"), 'MR%5' ) 003: D2- 004: DATE PD 005: 8R 006: S 007: ...and UDT.OPTIONS 56 ON and UDT.OPTIONS 110 OFF. When I output the file using CKDATE, which is an empty string, I get: DATE PD. 12-31-67 ...and raw output (not converted for date) looks like: DATE PD. 00000 The following adjustment to the dictionary: AE DICT APOPEN CKDATE Top of "CKDATE" in "DICT APOPEN", 7 lines, 119 characters. *--: p 001: I The date of the check that paid this invoice. 002: FMT( TRANS( "APCHECKS", CHECK_ID, 4, "X" ), '7/0R' ) 003: D2- 004: DATE PD 005: 8R 006: S 007: ...returns, correctly, the following: DATE PD. The OCONV function converts an empty string to a field of five zeros (00000). Is there a fix for this, or is 'MR%5' an invalid mask? As always, thanks. Bill Haskett Advantos Systems, Inc. www.advantos.net (760)944-5570 (CA) (360)923-4838 (WA) ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
