System and Global Edits List

The following is a list of filePro defined GLOBAL edits.

 

Edit

Description

 

*

Accepts any value.

#

Accepts only 0-9, periods, dashes, slashes and blanks; right-justify; (will not sort in numeric order).

$

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.

.0

shows integer values only; no decimals.

.n

(where n = 0-8); accept numeric; show n decimal places.

A

accept A-Z, a-z

ALLUP

accept words (usually names) in upper or lowercase, convert contents to uppercase

ALNUM

alphanumeric; restricted to A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and blanks

ASCII

accept the entire range of printable characters

BLOB

this edit is used for storing pictures and objects in the blob file

This edit type defaults to the valid length of 16

CHEQUE

convert dollar amounts to words (used for printing checks); suggested length is 75

DMY

DDMMYY format; (6)

DMY/

DD/MM/YY format; (8)

DMYY

DDMMYYYY format; (8)

DMYY/

DD/MM/YYYY format; (10)

F

floating decimal

HM

HH:MM; minimum length of 5 for minutes + n for hours > 99

HMS

HH:MM:SS; minimum length of 8 for minutes + n for hours

LOWUP

change leading letters to caps; leave other caps intact

MDY

MMDDYY format; (6)

MDY/

MM/DD/YY format; (8)

MDYY

MMDDYYYY format; (8)

MDYY/

MM/DD/YYYY format; (10)

MEMO

this edit is used for storing text memos in the blob file

This edit type defaults to the valid length of 16

MMM_YY

convert a MDY, MDYY, MDY/, MDYY/ date into MON/YEAR

N

accept 0-9 only

NUM

accept 0-9, supplies a zero if position is left blank

PARNEG

remove minus sign from a negative number and place parentheses around the number

PHONE

the entire number in phone number format; (to include area codes,

RJ

right-justify

RMINUS

move minus sign of negative number to the right side of number

SEX

accept only M, F, m, or f, and change lower to uppercase; (use a length of 1)

SSNUM

Social Security number; accept 0-9; show dashes;(len must be 11)

STATE

accept standard postal abbreviation; (length must be 2)

UNPAREN

Removes parentheses

UNPHONE

remove parentheses, hyphens, and spaces from phone # string

UPLOW

change leading letters to caps, all others lowercase, except Roman numerals & De, Del, La, Li, Lo, Mac, Mc, and San

TIME

HH:MM:SS; length of 8; accepts 00:00:00-23:59:59

YESNO

(use a length of 1)

YMD

YYMMDD format; (6)

YMD/

YY/MM/DD format; (8)

YYMD

YYYYMMDD format; (8)

YYMD/

YYYY/MM/DD format; (10)

ZIP

Accepts 5 or 9 digits with or without dash; show dash in 9-digit zip; (length must be 5 or 10)

0RJ

Right-justify and "0" fill