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Mark1
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Hello,
Is there a way to set the format of a variable in the stylesheet... something like:

...
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=BUDGET_DIFF,
FORMAT=I10%,
WHEN=FLAG EQ 'E',
$
...

Reason I have to do it in the stylesheet is because my last table file statement uses MORE to stack 10 held files together. Apparently all the columns have
to be in the same format in order to MORE them all together. That is fine for 9 of them... but the tenth needs to be a percent. Any help? Thanks!

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Tony A
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Mark,

Use "formatting on the fly" -
PRINT COMPUTE PCTFMT/A6 = IF FLAG NE 'E' THEN 'I9' ELSE 'I9%'; NOPRINT
      BUDGET_DIFF/PCTFMT AS 'something'
etc. etc.
... or something like that. No DS test it!

T


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Darin Lee
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You're not going to get around the MORE problem - the fields MUST be the exact same format for the columns in order to work properly.

If you're just wonderabout the display format, you can't do it in a stylesheet, but you CAN do it in a DEFINEd field:

FMT/A5=IF FLAG EQ 'E' THEN 'I10%' ELSE 'I10';
BUDGET_DIFF/FMT=.........


Regards,

Darin


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Francis Mariani
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I think you have to DEFINE the "format" column, then use it in another DEFINE or COMPUTE - this is an example from the doc:

DEFINE FILE CAR
MYFORMAT/A8=DECODE COUNTRY ('ENGLAND' 'P15.3C' 'JAPAN' 'P15.0' ELSE 
'P15.2M');
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES/MYFORMAT BY COUNTRY
END


See Creating Reports With WebFOCUS Language > Creating Temporary Fields > Defining a Virtual Field


Francis


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Tony A
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Good ol' Francis, ready with the documentation reference!

If I remember correctly, the format of A8 is important so my example and Darin's example of A5 and A6 might not work? Someone test it?

T


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Darin Lee
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Now that you mention it, I do remember that somewhere in the back corner of consciousness. I think it has to be at least A8 but can be longer (although I don't know why it would need to be for practical purposes.) Anything less gives an error (FOC253) INVALID FORMAT SPECIFICATION ON LEFT HAND SIDE


Regards,

Darin


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Mark1
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Thank you to all! This is what I needed...


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mitch goudy
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I am trying the techinique about to format on the fly, but I am getting the FOC253 error. Here is my code:
-SET &COUNTER = 25 ;
-STARTLOOP
COMPUTE ARD_24/A240 = GETTOK(PARARD, 3500, &COUNTER,'%', LINELEN, ARD_24);
COMPUTE RDLEN/I4 = ARGLEN(2000, (LAST RD_24), RDLEN);
COMPUTE RDALEN/A8 = 'A'||EDIT(RDLEN);
COMPUTE RD_24B/RDALEN = LAST RD_24;
COMPUTE RD_24/A1240V = (RD_24A)||(RD_24B);
-SET &COUNTER = &COUNTER + 1 ;
-IF &COUNTER GT 50 GOTO ENDLOOP ;
-GOTO STARTLOOP
-ENDLOOP

I am trying to do some recursive concatenation.

Any ideas to why I am getting the FOC253 as referenced above? I tried to do this all in the DEFINE, but also got the error. Hoped it would go away as COMPUTEs. This is the only error I am recieved.

TIA


Mitch
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PBrightwell
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First open a new issue. Because this one is marked solved a lot of people will skip over it.

Second change your -STARTLOOP and -GOTO STARTLOOP with
-REPEAT MYLOOP 25 TIMES
-MYLOOP (THIS CAN BE ANY NAME

Third, I don't see an RD_24A in your code is it in you input file and if so how big is it?

Last - Try commenting out the individual computes so you will know which one is giving the error.


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