John,
  I'm sure you can use an ',EDIT="-^^^^.^^^^" ' statement on a DISPLAY,FILE= or
similar statement to format your number as you wish.  The EDIT attribute is
also available on the FORMAT statement.

RAT

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Subject: Transact Question


Hello all,

    I guess you can figure that we use Transact here at Nortel
Networks, otherwise I wouldn't have a Transact question.  :-)  Anyway,
I want to output to a file a number in the format -999.9999.  I can't
find a item type that will output the variable in this form.  Is there
a way of doing this without manually pulling the parts and putting them
in the buffer?

Thanks,
John

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