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3.4.6.3 EDIT Command

Although EDIT performs the same in the foreground and background, you must be careful when inserting blank lines into a data set because EDIT interprets a blank line as a null line. This causes the system to switch from input mode to edit mode. To insert blank lines into a data set, you can:

Insert a character string that you do not use anywhere else in the data set. Then, before ending the EDIT session, issue a global change, changing every occurrence of the character string to blanks.
Specify the EMODE operand on the EDIT command. Each new line is preceded by a line number, wherever line numbering is allowed.

For an example of how to insert blank lines into a data set using line mode EDIT, see Figure 24 in topic APPENDIX1.2.1.1.4.

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