*+ (KEYIN and DISPLAY)

ANSI

When used in a KEYIN instruction, this list control allows the operator to enter data using a continuous mode of entry without the necessity of pressing the Enter or Return key. Once this control is activated, it stays in effect until the end of the instruction or until turned off (*-). Once sufficient data has been entered to fill the variable, the data is placed in the variable and the instruction skips to the next variable processed. For example:

MM	DIM	2
DD	DIM	2
YY	DIM	2
	KEYIN	P=25:04,+,MM,"/",DD,"/",YY

Date to enter: June 4, 1982 using MMDDYY format

Entering 060482 would not require use of [E].

Without this feature, the operator would have to use [E] after each variable entry (MM, DD and YY) or a total of three times.

When this list control is used in a DISPLAY instruction, it affects all character string variables that follow in the DISPLAY list by showing only the data from the first physical character in the variable through its Length Pointer (LP).