Here are another two cents: ensure that any further development considers
international standards, not only US (unless this is already catered for in
the currently available class, I haven't seen it).
Staffan
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Earl D Hodil <eho...@open-softech.com>wrote:
> On 5/8/2013 12:51 PM, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
>
> Hi Oliver,
>
> There is the format method of the String class and a similar format()
> built in function. I've never used them much and didn't find them too easy
> to use. Once you understand them, they are probably easy.
>
> In the incubator is an implementation of a decimal formatting class:
>
> svn+ssh://
> miesf...@svn.code.sf.net/p/oorexx/code-0/incubator/decimalFormat
>
> written by Lee. I've never tried that at all and don't know how easy it
> is to use.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Oliver Sims <
> oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I want to format decimal numbers of between 3 and 9 digits so that they
>> have the following format:
>> x,xxx,xxx.xx
>> For example:
>> 123 ==> 1.23
>> 123456 ==> 1,234.56
>> 123456789 ==> 1,234,567.89
>> etc.
>>
>> I can do it with a little routine, but after some searching, I've failed
>> to find an easy way to do it using one of the many ooRexx formatting
>> functions.
>> Is there an easy way?
>>
>> --
>> Oliver Sims
>>
>>
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> Might I put my two cents in and suggest that whoever is developing the
> decimalFormat class consider using the picture characters of old (as in
> COBOL and PL/I) for the format string. I put a similar function into
> REXXTOOLS on the mainframe and it has been very popular.
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