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From: terry@uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Dollarizing
Message-ID: <8acu01846b.I00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 1 May 91 23:30:09 GMT
References: <lordbah.4876@amusing.UUCP> <91119.112324DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: terry@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <91119.112324DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu> DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>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.
>

It's in the original language (as documented in Cowlishaw's book), but
many implementations leave out things (like CMS leaves out charout,
charin, etc.).

Terry