Naomi suggests preparing the formatted value in advance; in addition to that, you can also use the transform() function in the report expression itself ( I suspect this would be simpler). Just set the report expression to something like:
transform(MyField, pcFormatExp)
>Hi,
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>I am trying to specify the format of certain column of a report as a variable but so far no success. Here is what I have:
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>private pcFormatExp
>pcFormatExp = "99"
>
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>Then in the report, in the Format field, I tried to specify it three different ways:
>1. Simply entering the pcFormatExp in the Format field
>2. Using parenthesis as (pcFormatExp)
>3. Using macro &pcFormatExp.
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>The value in the field for the column is numeric. But all I see is a bunch of asterisks in the report for this column.
>
>What do I need to change? TIA.
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