Table 12-2: EDIT$ Options
Value of
Expression Effect
1 Discards each character's parity bit (bit 7). Note that you should not use this value for
characters in the DEC Multinational character set.
2 Discards all spaces and tabs.
4 Discards all carriage returns, line feeds, form feeds, deletes, escapes, and nulls.
8 Discards leading spaces and tabs.
16 Converts multiple spaces and tabs to a single space.
32 Converts lowercase letters to uppercase.
64 Converts left brackets ( [ ) to left parentheses [(], and right brackets ( ] ) to right parentheses
[)].
128 Discards trailing spaces and tabs. (Same as TRM$ function.)
256 Suppresses all editing for characters within quotation marks. If the string has only one
quotation mark, BASIC suppresses all editing for the characters following the quotation
mark.