Re: Developer 2000: How format commas into variable-length number?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:11:11 GMT
Message-ID: <75egdc$j9j$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <75c07b$dhr$1_at_news-1.news.gte.net>,
"John Haskins" <76054.334_at_compuserve.com> wrote:
> I want to set a format mask with commas for a number field whose contents
> will vary in length. The only comma formatting example given in the Dev2K
> docs shows "9,999", which requires that the number be exactly four digits
> long. Surely there is a way to format a field so that no matter what the
> length of the number, it is displayed with commas between thousands,
> millions, etc.? Can anyone help out with this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Greetings from JAK,
FOR a NUMBER type field:
Try using format mask = FM9,999,999 etc Using the FM ( fill-mode ) will
allow for variable length numeric values.
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