ALPHANUM= alphabetic numbering

Normally XWIDE=1 limits the numerical score range to 0-9, but with ALPHANUM= this can be extended much further.

 

ALPHANUM= is followed by a string of characters that represent the cardinal numbers in order starting with 0, 1, 2, 3, ...

 

Example: Represent the numbers 0-20 using XWIDE=1

 ALPHANUM = 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJK ; then A=10, B=11, .., K=20

 XWIDE = 1

 CODES = 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJK

 NI = 5

 ITEM1 = 1

 &END

 21BF3 Mary ; Mary's responses are 2, 1, 11, 15, 3

 K432A Mark ; Mark's responses are 20, 4, 3, 2, 10