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EDIT$–Fieldata Image Composition Editing Package
Table 8–3. Time and Date Editing Routines
PROC Call Generated Instructions Description
E$DAT5 ER TDATE$
LMJ X11,EDAY5$
E$TIME p1 LA A0,p1
LMJ X11,ETIME$
E$TD ER TDATE$
LMJ X11,ETIME$
Edits the date portion of A0 into the format
yymmdd
where yy, mm, and dd are the 2 digits of the year, month, and
day, respectively.
Edits a time.
Edits the time portion of A0 into the format
hh:mm:ss
where hh, mm, and ss are the 2 digits of the hours, minutes,
and seconds of the time, respectively.
8.4. EDIT$F–Floating-Point Editing Routines
The floating-point editing routines require three parameters in addition to the address of
the floating-point packet. The first two are called x and y and are supplied in S5 and S6
of A0. These parameters specify the format of the edited number as described below.
The third parameter is the single- or double-precision number to be edited. If singleprecision,
the number is specified in A1; if double-precision, the number is specified in
A1 and A2.
Edited numbers may appear in one of the two general formats: fixed-decimal format
(no exponent) and scientific format. A number edited in fixed-decimal format consists of
a sign (if negative) followed by the digits of the number and an embedded decimal point.
The sign is present only if the number is negative; a positive number has no sign
character.
The parameter x specifies the width of the edited field, or the number of character
positions the edited number will occupy, including sign and decimal point. If the value of
x is too small to represent the value being edited, it is ignored, and as many character
positions as necessary are used to correctly represent the number.
The parameter y specifies how many fractional digits will be edited. This is the number
of digits appearing to the right of the decimal point. The value of y may be any value
greater than or equal to zero, but should always be less than the value of x to allow for
the sign and decimal point characters.
The scientific format is similar to the fixed-decimal format but has an exponent at the
right. The exponent consists of an optional exponent character (usually 'E' for
single-precision and 'D' for double-precision numbers) followed by the exponent's sign
(either "+" or "-") and digits. Exponents of single-precision numbers are always edited as
a 2-digit value, and those of double-precision numbers are always edited as a 3-digit
value.
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