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Option 60 (Incrementing/Decrementing Fields)––––––––––––––––––
You may have an application, such as serial numbers, in which
you need a numeric field to increment (increase in value) or
decrement (decrease in value) on successive tickets within a
single batch. Incrementing or decrementing can be applied to
numeric
data only. If you have a field that includes letters
and digits, apply incrementing or decrementing to only the
portion of the field that contains digits. Do not use with Option
42 (price field).
Syntax R,60,I/D,amount,l pos,r pos p
R1. R Field Option Header.
R2. 60 Option
60
.
R3. I/D
I
incrementing field
D
decrementing field
R4. amount Amount to increase or decrease. Range:
0- 99
.
R5. l pos Leftmost position in inc/dec portion of field. If this value
is not entered, the default value
1
is used. Range:
0 -
2710
.
R6. r pos Rightmost position in inc/dec portion of field. If this value
is not used, the entire field length is used as the default.
Range:
0 - 2710
.
Example R,60,I,5,1,6 p
Increments a field by 5 each time the field is printed. The field
increments beginning with the first left position and ending
with the sixth position.
Fixing the First Number in the Incrementing Sequence
There are two ways to enter the first number in the
incrementing sequence. You can use batch data or use Option
1 to define the first number as a fixed character.The first
number in the sequence must contain the same amount of digits
as the highest number to be counted. For example, to count the
numbers
1
to
999
, the first number in the sequence must be
entered as
001
.
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