Oh gosh, it has been about 20 years (literally) since I used ED but you need a "significance starter" -- x'21' -- to force it to format zeros and anything else that comes ahead of the first non-zero digit. Try sticking an X'21' into your pattern about where you want the first leading zero.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Janet Graff Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: STCK question Ooh I am liking the ED instruction. But I'm missing something. My pattern is this =XL15'20207A20207A20204B202020202020' My data is this =XL8'0000003082080000' And the result I'm getting is this ' 308208' What I want is this ' 0.308208' What can I do to the pattern mask to force the decimal point, and at the least the zeros between the decimal and the first significant digit, and maybe one zero before the decimal point? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
