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PERCENTw.d

Category:

Numeric

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	6
Range:	1-32

d

optionally specifies the power of 10 by which to divide the value. If the data contain decimal points, the d value is ignored.

Range:

0-2

Details

The PERCENTw.d informat converts the numeric portion of the input data to a number using the same method as the COMMAw.d informat. If a percent sign (%) follows the number in the input field, PERCENTw.d divides the number by 100.

Examples

input @1 x percent3. @4 y percent5.; 

Data Lines	Results
----+----1----+
1% (20%)	0.01 -0.2

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