Basic HTML version of Foils prepared March 30 97

Foil 66 Basic Text and Numeric Fieldholders (Chapter 11 of Llama Book)

From PERL4 Tutorial for CPS616 Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 -- February 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Text Fields are specified in "picture lines" by
  • @<<<<<< Left Justified characters
  • @>>>>>> Right Justified Characters
  • @||||||||||| Centered Characters
Fields that are too long are truncated, those too short padded
Character count includes @ sign (@ on its own is one character long)
Numeric fields are @####.### with . specifying position of decimal point.

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