Control Edit Descriptors

A control edit descriptor either directly determines how text is displayed or affects the conversions performed by subsequent data edit descriptors.

• Forms for Control Edit Descriptors
  
• Positional Editing
  
• Sign Editing
  
• Blank Editing
  
• Round Editing
  
• Decimal Editing
  
• Scale-Factor Editing (P)
  
• Slash Editing ( / )
  
• Colon Editing (:)
  
• Dollar-Sign ($) and Backslash ( \ ) Editing
  
• Character Count Editing (Q)