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cmallain
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I have a dollar amt being passed as an ampervar. Is there an easy way to add commas but keep the variable as amper? I know that ampervars are considered alpha, but is there a way to cheat it into thinking that it's not?


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Posts: 36 | Location: Rolling Meadows, IL | Registered: September 05, 2007Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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-SET &NUM1 = 3493762893;
-SET &NUM1A = FTOA(&NUM1,'(D15)','A30');

-TYPE &NUM1 &NUM1A


Francis


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cmallain
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THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FRANCIS. Can I trouble you to ask you why this works? I have been doing this language quite a long time and would've never thought to use FTOA.

Thanks,
Carol


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cmallain
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Also, one other teenie, tiny question? Is there a way to retain the decimals? My field is actually being passed as 15.3.


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Francis Mariani
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I think the reason it works is that the input to FTOA is a number, and if the amper variable passed to FTOA in DM looks like a number it's treated as a number not as alpha. Simply change D15 to D15.3 to retain the decimal places.


Francis


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Glenda
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Just change the input length to reflect the decimals.

-SET &NUM1 = 3493762893.135;
-SET &NUM1A = FTOA(&NUM1,'(D15.3)','A30');
-TYPE &NUM1 &NUM1A


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cmallain
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THANKS!!! I thought of the 15.3 just after I submitted the post and it worked!!! Thanks again!!!


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