Hi,

There is an "dirty hack" (their words) to solve this 
problem in xhb code, and while I can do something similar 
in Harbour (although in less ugly way), I'm curious 
what is the purpose of "@RE" mask for numeric values?
Seem like something invalid to me.

Viktor

On 2010 May 14, at 15:10, Aleksander Czajczynski wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This one confused me today and I'm just curious which would be "the most" 
> correct behaviour ;-)
> I'm unable to enter any number with @RE picture in Harbour, reduced test-case 
> follows.
> 
> Regards, AC
> 
> PROCEDURE MAIN
> LOCAL n := 0
> 
> /*
>  Clipper NG
>        E            Displays date in British format
>        R            Nontemplate characters are inserted
> */
> 
> CLEAR
> @ 1, 1 SAY "Works in Clipper 5.3b & xHarbour (@RE)"
> @ 2, 1 GET n PICTURE "@RE 99.9999 xx/y" VALID n > 0
> READ
> 
> @ 3, 1 SAY "Works in Clipper 5.3b & Harbour (@E)"
> @ 4, 1 GET n PICTURE "@E 99.9999 xx/y" VALID n > 0
> READ
> 
> @ 5, 1 SAY "@R alone works as expected in Harbour"
> @ 6, 1 GET n PICTURE "@R 99.9999 xx/y" VALID n > 0
> READ
> 
> 
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