D A T A T Y P E
Purpose
Restricts the type of data the GET statement can retrieve.
Syntax
DATATYPE
Process
The DATATYPE command restricts the GET statement to only read data of type
data-type
Example
This example removes all dashes from the SHIP_NO field.
DATATYPE ALPHANUMERIC
data-type
Data-type
.
can contain one of the following values.
Data-type
NUMERIC
ALPHA
SYMBOLS
ALPHANUMERIC
NUMSYM
ALPHASYM
ALPHANUMSYM
ALL
Description
Numeric Only (0-9)
Alpha only (A-Z, a-z)
Symbols only
Alphanumeric (0-9, A-
Z, a-z)
Numeric and Symbols
Alpha and Symbols
Alphanumeric and
Symbols
All characters
accepted (00-FFh)
Command Reference 5-31