Chapter 5:  Data Formatting  5-7 
Miscellaneous Commands 
FBSuppressalloccurrencesofupto15differentcharacters,startingat
thecurrentcursorposition,asthecursorisadvancedbyother
commands.WhentheFCcommandisencountered,thesuppress
functionisterminated.ThecursorisnotmovedbytheFBcommand.
Syntax=FBnnxxyy..zzwherenn
isacountofthenumberof
suppressedcharactersinthelistandxxyy..zzisthelistofcharacters
tobesuppressed.(xxstandsfor thehexadecimalvalueforanASCII
code,seeASCIIConversionChart(CodePage1252)inAppendixA.)
FCDisablessuppressfilterandclear
allsuppressedcharacters.Syntax
=FC.
E4Replacesupto15charactersinthe datastringwithuserspecified
characters.ReplacementcontinuesuntiltheE5commandis
encountered.Syntax=E4nnxx
1xx2yy1yy2...zz1zz2wherennisthe
totalcountofbothcharacterstobereplacedplusreplacement
characters;xx
1definescharacterstobereplacedandxx2defines
replacementcharacters,continuingthroughzz
1andzz2.
E5Terminatescharacterreplacement.Syntax=E5 .
FEComparecharacterincurrentcursorpositiontothecharacter“xx.”
Ifcharactersareequal,incrementcursor.Ifcharactersarenotequal,
noformatmatch.Syntax=FExx(xxstandsforthehexadecimal
valueforanASCIIcode,seeASCIIConversionChart(Code
Page
1252)inAppendixA.)
ECChecktomakesurethereisanASCIInumberatthecurrentcursor
position.Ifcharacterisnotnumeric,formatisaborted.Syntax =
EC.
EDChecktomakesurethereisanon‐numericASCIIcharacteratthe
currentcursorposition.Ifcharacteris
numeric,formatisaborted.
Syntax=ED.