>I have noticed that the old @say pict "999" formats numerical data in a way hard to achieve any other way.
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>For example @0,0 say 9999.99 PICT "999.999.999,99" spits 9.999,99
>For those who may wonder why this would be necessary if you wanted to format an amount of money in most European countries where they use a a comma (,) as a decimal separater and a period as a thousand separator. So $100,000.00 might be something like 200.000,00DM.
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>I would want to be able to capture the @say output into a variable that would be more useful than just saying to the screen or file.
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>How could I achieve that? I have tried to tweak DynamicInputmask, InputMask, and format properties in a grid but to no avail. I don't want to use the Currency data format because it applies to the entire object (in this case a grid). I would want to change the format per line.
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>Any clues, ideas will be highly appreciated.
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>Thanks and happy new year to all.
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>Mathias
Will users type directly to this grid cells, or it's just for view purposes?
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant