Paxar 9413, 9412 manual 60,I/D,amount,l pos,r pos p, 60,I,5,1,6 p

O p t i o n 6 0 ( I n c r e m e n t i n g / D e c r e m e n t i n g F i e l d s )

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.

Syntax		R,60,I/D,amount,l pos,r pos p
R1.	R	Option Header.
R2.	60	Option 60.
R3.	I/D	I	incrementing field
		D	decrementing field
R4. amount		Amount to increase or decrease. Range: 0- 999.
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.

F i x i n g t h e F i r s t N u m b e r i n t h e I n c r e m e n t i n g S e q u e n c e

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.

5-12Defining Field Options