AT&T UNIX™PC Unix System V Users Manual - tenox

ADF (4)
Format
Comma
Dollars and Cents
Financial
Fixed
Percent
Scientific
(AT&T UNIX PC only )
Meaning
Fixed format with commas.
Positive numbers are preceded with
dollar sign. Negative numbers are
enclosed in parentheses. Uses commas.
Negative numbers are in parentheses.
Fixed format without commas.
Per cent.
Scientific notation.
ADF(4)
If no FORMAT token is present, the format is determined by the
global format. The DECIMALS token specifies the number of
characters to be displayed following the decimal point. If no
DECIMALS token is present, the number of decimal places is
determined by the global decimal places.
The FORMULA data type has the following format:
FORMULA {
NAME \EOT\
LOCK
INVISIBLE
FORMAT
DECIMALS
TEXT \EOT\
}
The tokens following the FORMULA keyword must all be
specified exactly once for each FORMULA. The only required
tokens are integer or floating point number and TEXT. With the
exception of the TEXT token, a FORMULA has all of the same
tokens that a VALUE has.
The TEXT token is used to specify the text of the formula. The
exact syntax of formula text is determined by the FORMULA­
TYPE keyword in the TABLEDEF data type. Applications which
are able to understand the text of a formula should parse the formula,
and then store the formula in their own internal format.
The value of the formula should be determined by having the
application evaluate the formula, not by the number in integer or
floating point number. Applications which do not understand the
text of a formula should ignore the formula text and treat this
data type like a VALUE data type.
Compound Data Types
The data types in this section are composed of lists of the already
defined basic data types. The following compound data types are
defined:
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