| Informats for NLS |
| Category: | Numeric |
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Syntax |
| NLPCTIw.d |
specifies the width of the input field.
| Default: | 6 |
| Range: | 1-32 |
optionally specifies whether to divide the number by 10d. If the data contains decimal separators, the d value is ignored.
| Default: | 0 |
| Range: | 0-31 |
| Details |
The NLPCTIw.d informat reads percentage data in the specified locale for international 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 parentheses from the input data.
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The NLPCTIw.d informat performs processing that is opposite of the NLPCTw.d informat.
| Examples |
The following example uses -12,345.67% as the input value.
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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 |
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