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KnowledgeBase 00120: Entering Mark Characters from the KeyboardThis article was originally published as a Tip of the Week. Sometimes it is useful for application developers and system administrators to be able to include mark characters in data entered from the keyboard. This facility should not be enabled for end users of an application as it has the possibility of corrupting data if the application does not apply rigorous validation of incoming data. The PTERM MARK CommandUse of PTERM MARK ONenables translation of three control characters to the mark characters used to mark the boundaries between fields, values and subvalues in dynamic arrays.
Use of PTERM MARK OFFdisables this translation, resulting in
Using the PTERM MARK command without the ON or OFF qualifier displays the current setting. Mark character translation is off by default. Related ArticlesNone. |