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Chapter 2 Command Codes
Alphanumerics, Incremental: Fixed Data Fields
Purpose To automatically increment/decrement fixed alphanumeric data
fields.
Mode CREATE
Format
ALPHA
[R;] [E;] [Cn;]
I;
[DIR;] [UC;] [DARK;] [POINT;] [HSn or HSDn;]
SR; SC; VE; HE;
[
idir
]
STEPMASK
; [RPT
n
;] [RST
n
;]
(D)STARTDATA(D)
STOP
I Identifies this alphanumeric command as an
Incremental Alphanumeric command; enter I.
idir
The optional increment direction parameter to
specify an increment (add) or decrement (subtract)
to the data. Enter a plus sign (+) or leave the field
blank to increment (the default). Enter a minus sign
(-) to decrement.
STEPMASK
Defines the increment amount (step), the number
of character positions in the data field, and provides
a mask to control the increment function on specific
parts of the data. Refer to Table 5 on page 35 for
complete information on STEPMASK parameter
values.
RPT
n
The optional incremental repeat count parameter to
specify the number of times a particular field value
is repeated before it is incremented. A repeated
field value is useful when printing multiple
rows/columns of identical labels before increasing
to the next value.
To use the repeat count parameter, enter RPT and
replace
n
with a numeric value ranging from 1 to
65,535 to specify the repeat count. The default
repeat count parameter is 1, which will increment
the field value each time it prints.
Note In the command format below, incremental alphanumeric
command parameters are shown in boldface type.
Standard alphanumeric command parameters and optional
nonincremental parameters are shown in
italics
and are
described in the Alphanumerics section (starting on page
29). Due to space constraints, the command parameters are
separated into two lines. During actual IGP input, DO NOT
separate command parameters.