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?

-SET &NUM1 = 3493762893;
-SET &NUM1A = FTOA(&NUM1,'(D15)','A30');

-TYPE &NUM1 &NUM1A

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

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

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.

Just change the input length to reflect the decimals.

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

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