The following is a list of filePro defined GLOBAL edits.
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Edit |
Description
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* |
Accepts any value. |
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# |
Accepts only 0-9, periods, dashes, slashes and blanks; right-justify; (will not sort in numeric order). |
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$ |
Prepends a dollar sign; accept any number of digits and a negative sign in front of the point; show point and two decimal places, right-justify the result; (since it truncates rather than rounds, use only for result fields),n (where n = 0-8 or F); add a comma every 3 digits. |
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.0 |
shows integer values only; no decimals. |
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.n |
(where n = 0-8); accept numeric; show n decimal places. |
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A |
accept A-Z, a-z |
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ALLUP |
accept words (usually names) in upper or lowercase, convert contents to uppercase |
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ALNUM |
alphanumeric; restricted to A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and blanks |
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ASCII |
accept the entire range of printable characters |
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CHEQUE |
convert dollar amounts to words (used for printing checks); suggested length is 75 |
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DMY |
DDMMYY format; (6) |
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DMY/ |
DD/MM/YY format; (8) |
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DMYY |
DDMMYYYY format; (8) |
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DMYY/ |
DD/MM/YYYY format; (10) |
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F |
floating decimal |
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HM |
HH:MM; minimum length of 5 for minutes + n for hours > 99 |
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HMS |
HH:MM:SS; minimum length of 8 for minutes + n for hours |
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LOWUP |
change leading letters to caps; leave other caps intact |
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MDY |
MMDDYY format; (6) |
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MDY/ |
MM/DD/YY format; (8) |
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MDYY |
MMDDYYYY format; (8) |
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MDYY/ |
MM/DD/YYYY format; (10) |
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MMM_YY |
convert a MDY, MDYY, MDY/, MDYY/ date into MON/YEAR |
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N |
accept 0-9 only |
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NUM |
accept 0-9, supplies a zero if position is left blank |
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PARNEG |
remove minus sign from a negative number and place parentheses around the number |
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PHONE |
the entire number in phone number format; (to include area codes, |
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RJ |
right-justify |
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RMINUS |
move minus sign of negative number to the right side of number |
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SEX |
accept only M, F, m, or f, and change lower to uppercase; (use a length of 1) |
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SSNUM |
Social Security number; accept 0-9; show dashes;(len must be 11) |
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STATE |
accept standard postal abbreviation; (length must be 2) |
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UNPAREN |
Removes parentheses |
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UNPHONE |
remove parentheses, hyphens, and spaces from phone # string |
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UPLOW |
change leading letters to caps, all others lowercase, except Roman numerals & De, Del, La, Li, Lo, Mac, Mc, and San |
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TIME |
HH:MM:SS; length of 8; accepts 00:00:00-23:59:59 |
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YESNO |
(use a length of 1) |
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YMD |
YYMMDD format; (6) |
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YMD/ |
YY/MM/DD format; (8) |
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YYMD |
YYYYMMDD format; (8) |
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YYMD/ |
YYYY/MM/DD format; (10) |
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ZIP |
Accepts 5 or 9 digits with or without dash; show dash in 9-digit zip; (length must be 5 or 10) |
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0RJ |
Right-justify and "0" fill |