
the following PICTURE statement creates the MILLION. format, which formats the
variable value 1600000 as $1.6M:
picture million low-high='09.9M'
(prefix='$' mult=.00001);
1600000 is first multiplied by .00001, which equals 16. Note that there is a digit
selector after the decimal. The value 16 is placed into the picture beginning on the
right. The value 16 overlays 09.9, and results in 01.6. Leading zeros are dropped, and
the final result is 1.6M.
If the value of low-high is equal to '000M', then the result would be 16M.
Alias
MULT=
Default
10
n
, where n is the number of digits after the first decimal point in the
picture. For example, suppose your ...