>>Is there any difference between "#" and "9", in the PICTURE clause, or in the second parameter for transform()?
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>There's no difference if you use them for output formatting. In InputMask '#' allows to enter spaces in additon to digits and sign.
Thanks.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)