NLPCTIw.d Format

Writes percentage data of the international expression in the specified locale.
Category: Numeric
Alignment: left

Syntax

NLPCTIw.d

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field.
Default: 6
Range: 4–32
d
specifies to divide the number by 10d. If the data contains decimal separators, the d value is ignored.
Default: 0
Range: 0–31

Comparisons

The NLPCTIw.d format writes percentage data of the international expression in the specified locale. The NLPCTw.d format writes the percentage value with locale-dependent thousand and decimal separators. The NLPCTIw.d format writes the percentage value with a comma (,) as thousand separator and a period (.) as a decimal separator.
The NLPCTw.d format is similar to the PERCENTw.d format except the NLPCTw.d format is locale-specific.

Example

In the following example, the LOCALE= system option is set to English_UnitedStates.
x=put(-12.3456789,nlpcti32.2);
y=put(-12.3456789,percent32.2);
Statements
Results
----+--------1
put x=;
put y=;
-1,234.57%
(                      1234.57)