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NLPCTw.d Informat
Reads percentage data in the specified locale for local expressions, and then converts the data to a numeric value.
| Category: | Numeric |
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Syntax |
| NLPCTw.d |
Syntax Description
- w
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specifies the width of the input field.
Default: 6 Range: 1-32 - d
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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 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.
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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.
| 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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