NLMNYw.d Informat

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

Category:

Numeric

Syntax

NLMNYw.d

Syntax Description

w: specifies the width of the input field.

Default: 9

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 NLMNYw.d informat reads monetary data in the specified locale for the local expression, 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 NLMNYw.d informat performs processing that is the opposite of the NLMNYIw.d informat.

The NLMNYw.d informat is similar to the DOLLARw.d informat except that the NLMNYw.d informat is locale-specific.

Example

The following examples use the input value of $12,345.67.

Statements	Results
	----+----1----+
options LOCALE=English_UnitedStates; x=input('($12,345.67)',nlmny32.2); y=input('($12,345.67)',dollar32.2); put x=; put y=;	-12345.67 -12345.67

NLMNYw.d Informat

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