NLPCTw.d Informat

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

Category:

Numeric

Syntax

NLPCTw.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 NLPCTw.d informat reads percentage data in the specified locale for local expressions, and then converts the data to a numeric value. It divides the value by 100 and removes any thousands separators, decimal separators, blanks, the percent sign, and the close parenthesis from the input data.

Comparisons

The NLPCTw.d informat performs processing that is opposite of the NLPCTIw.d informat. The NLPCTw.d informat is similar to the PERCENTw.d informat except that the NLPCTw.d informat is locale-specific.

Example

The following example uses –12,345.67% as the input value.

Statements	Result
	----+----1----+
options LOCALE=English_UnitedStates; x=input('-12,345.67%',nlpct32.2); y=input('(12,345.67%)',percent32.2); put x=; put y=;	-123.4567 -123.4567

NLPCTw.d Informat

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