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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Monday, 29 Apr 1991 11:23:24 EDT
From: David Barr <DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <91119.112324DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Dollarizing
References:  <lordbah.4876@amusing.UUCP>

In article <lordbah.4876@amusing.UUCP>, lordbah@amusing.UUCP (Jeff Van Epps)
says:

>In article <91118.012747DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu> DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu (David
>Barr)
>writes:
>>
>> How about using
>>
>>   format(number,,2)  ?
>>
>> This will automatically round the decimal to two decimal places, and
>> fill with zeros when necessary.

>Sounds good, but I can't find any reference to "format" in my ARexx
>manual, and it says "function not found" when I try to run this.  Where
>does "format" come from?

Oops, I am using CMS Rexx, and it is a standard fuction in the IBM
package.  Too bad ARexx didn't implement it.  I find it very useful.

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