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