Comments on: Underline extends beyond text when printing from AS/400 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/underline-extends-beyond-text-when-printing-from-as400/ Fri, 24 May 2013 12:30:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/underline-extends-beyond-text-when-printing-from-as400/#comment-75500 tomliotta Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:34:55 +0000 #comment-75500 The implication of Phil’s comment is that the DDS UNDERLINE keyword causes a “field” to be underlined in printed output, but his code would cause the “value in a field” to be underlined. DDS has no knowledge of where a value might have trailing spaces.

Underlining spaces is a perfectly valid printer operation. A field doesn’t have to have any non-blank characters at all in order for it to be underlined. In order to customize underlining, it can require additional programming.

Tom

]]> By: philpl1jb http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/underline-extends-beyond-text-when-printing-from-as400/#comment-75481 philpl1jb Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:13:49 +0000 #comment-75481 The printer can do it.
You could pack into the character string output variable
the escape code to turn on underline +
%trim(actual value) +
the escape code to turn off underline
Phil

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/underline-extends-beyond-text-when-printing-from-as400/#comment-75448 tomliotta Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:59:03 +0000 #comment-75448 It sounds as if values in the field may have trailing blanks, but you only want underlines for non-blank characters. Is that correct?

Tom

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