Nested Functions - Another Solution

[Chris Sharman]

>You may need to use a conditional define 
>if you want to start sticking commas in the number 
>when the number exceeds 99999.
>
>And you may need to use leading zeros 
>when the number is less than one dollar 
>or less than 10 cents.
>  
>For those situations I've used the SIZE function
>in conditional defines.
>
>We run into this frequently when displaying 
>currency conversions or account balances 
>in info statements.

Don't forget the very nice new formatnumber function, which does almost
everything you could want in formatting numbers, and much more elegantly than
rj ascii [:] etc.

Documented in the VMS 7.10F New features manual: don't know when/if it made it
to other platforms.

It would be nice to have a similar formatdate function: they're even harder to
display nicely in info messages - please ?

Chris
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Chris Sharman			Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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