Printronix LQH-HWTM manual Alphanumerics, Incremental Fields, Increment Alphanumeric

Alphanumerics, Incremental Fields

Linked and unlinked masking of subfields within the STARTDATA is defined by the L value in the STEPMASK field. L indicates linked but non-incremental data in the corresponding position of the STARTDATA field; any alpha character other than L in the STEPMASK field indicates a non-incremental, non-linked STARTDATA subfield.

Table 5. Increment Alphanumeric

STEPMASK	START DATA	Character Type and Function
0 - 9	A - Z	Alpha characters incremented by
		amount in STEPMASK field
0 - 9	0 - 9	Numeric characters incremented
		by amount in STEPMASK field
0 - 9	Space	Same character type as character
		in the next right adjacent, linked
		increment position. Character
		type will be numeric if in least
		significant position.
0 - 9	Not A - Z or 0 - 9	Error
Not 0 - 9 or L	Any	Non-incrementing alphanumeric
		character
L	Any	Linked, non-incrementing
		alphanumeric character

The examples on the following pages illustrate incremental alphanumeric data fields. All cases in the examples use a repeat count parameter value of 1 and a reset count parameter value of 0. The three vertical dots illustrate the natural progression for each column and unit of data based on the incremental count and its impact on linked and unlinked data fields.

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