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PowerCOBOL V11.0 Reference
FUJITSU Software

4.211 PictureString Property

Description:

Contains a COBOL picture edit string.

Used in object:

RenderText

Value:

A COBOL picture edit string.

When the RenderStyle property is "1 - COBOL PICTURE", defines the COBOL picture string to be used for editing the data.

The CurrencySign and DecimalPointIsComma properties also affect the data.

PowerCOBOL supports up to 4 decimal digits and up to 14 digits in the integer part.

The total string length, whose picture is specified by the PictureString property, must be shorter than 8192 bytes.

See the COBOL Reference Manual for detailed descriptions of COBOL picture edit strings.

Default value:

Container's RenderText property.

COBOL picture:

X, up to 8192 bytes

OLE data type:

VT_BSTR

Design time access:

Set and reference.

Execution time access:

Reference only.

Backward compatibility attribute:

None.