11.2.4 Real and Complex Editing

Real and complex editing is controlled by the F, E, D, EN, ES, and G data edit descriptors.

If no field width (w) is specified for a real data edit descriptor, the system supplies default values.

Real data edit descriptors can be affected by specified scale factors.

Note

Do not use the real data edit descriptors when attempting to parse textual input. These descriptors accept some forms that are purely textual as valid numeric input values. For example, input values D, E, E1, +, -, and . are all treated as value 0.0.

For More Information:

• On the scale factor, see Section 11.3.5.

• On system default values for data edit descriptors , see Section 11.2.7.

• On the form for data edit descriptors, see Section 11.2.1.

• On general rules for numeric editing, see Section 11.2.2.