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5.3.11.4 PICTURE Clause Editing



There are two general methods of editing in a PICTURE clause:

The type of editing allowed for an item depends on its data category. The type of editing that is valid for each category is shown in Table 13.


 Table 13. Data Categories                                                 
 Data Category            Type of Editing           Insertion Symbol       
 Alphabetic               None                      None                   
 Numeric                  None                      None                   
 Numeric-edited         
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
 Simple insertion        
                         
 Special insertion       
                         
 Fixed insertion         
                         
 Floating insertion      
                         
 Zero suppression        
                         
 Replacement             
 B 0 / ,                
                        
 .                      
                        
 cs + - CR DB           
                        
 cs + -                 
                        
 Z *                    
                        
 Z * + - cs             
 Alphanumeric             None                      None                   
 Alphanumeric-edited      Simple insertion          B 0 /                  
RevisionX  DBCS                    RevisionX  Simple insertion         RevisionX  B                      
RevisionX  External               
RevisionX  floating-point         
RevisionX  Special insertion       
RevisionX                          
RevisionX  .                      
RevisionX                         




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