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Syntax
Truncation of Data
FLAG (FL, FG)
If you move a mixed alphanumeric and Hankaku-Katakana value into an EDIT; W data
item, the value is moved character by character, and is truncated to the length of the
data item. However, if you move a mixed alphanumeric and Hankaku-Katakana value into
an EDIT; A data item, the value is moved byte by byte and is truncated to the length of the
data item. If the truncation occurs after the first byte of a double-byte Hankaku-Katakana
character, this will result in an invalid character.
Note: EDIT; W data items are not implemented in LDA.
DDDD DDBDD DDBDD DDDDD4
3 3
@DD DDY
The following table shows the types of data item 2 that can be compared to each type of
data item 1. For example, if data item 1 is a pure Kanji data item, it can only be compared
with another Kanji data item in data item 2.
If data item 1 is... Then data item 2 can be...
Alpha A
Alpha Literal A
Numeric ANSCD
Numeric Literal ANSCD
Signed NSCD
Signed Decimal Literal NSCD
Decimals NSCD
Date ANSCD
Kanji K
GLB.ZEROS ANSCDK
Legend continued
A Alpha
N Numeric
S Signed
C Decimals
D Date
K Kanji
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