NLNUMw.d Informat

Reads numeric data in the specified locale for local expressions, and then converts the data to a numeric value.

Category:

Numeric

Syntax

NLNUMw.d

Syntax Description

w: specifies the width of the input field.

Default:6

Range:1–32

d: optionally specifies whether to divide the number by 10^d. If the data contains decimal separators, the d value is ignored.

Default:0

Range:0–31

Details

The NLNUMw.d) informat reads numeric data in the specified locale for local expressions, and then converts the data to a numeric value. It removes any thousands separators, decimal separators, blanks, the currency symbol, and the close parenthesis from the input data.

Comparisons

The NLNUMw.d informat performs processing that is opposite to the NLNUMIw.d informat.

Example

The following example uses –1234356.78 as the input value.

Statements	Results
	----+----1----+
options locale=English_UnitedStates; x=input('-1,234,356.78',nlnum32.2); put x=;	-1234356.78

NLNUMw.d Informat

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