Paxar Monarch 9412, Reference Manual

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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 .
5-12 Defining Field Options