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NUMERIC XFD directive

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The NUMERIC XFD directive allows you to treat a data item as an unsigned integer when it is declared as alphanumeric. You might use this when the data stored in the item is always numeric.

Syntax

$XFD NUMERIC

Example

$xfd numeric
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