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The term spreadfield represents a sequential range of data locations with a repeat count and is specified as $col-col*repeat.

A spreadfield name cannot be used by itself except when storing it (D (define) . When getting values from a spreadfield only the methods shown in Simple test on spreadfield can be used.

The field width can be up to 4 columns wide and repeat must be between 1 and 1000.

For binary data the whole area used should not run on beyond column 80.

A spreadfield is treated as multi-coded response data where each field contains an integer value that represents a response. Any field which does not contain a valid (right justified) integer is ignored. Leading blanks are allowed.

Examples of spreadfields:

$5-5*6

$471-472*5

$201-202*40

$1245-1248*500

The first example holds up to 6 values between 1 and 9 in $5-10.

The second example holds up to 5 values between 1 and 99 in $471-480.

The third example holds up to 40 values between 1 and 99 in $201-280.

The last example holds up to 500 values between 1 and 9999 in $1245-3244.