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Results User’s Guide
for UNIX
Default Display Formats
Table C–1 shows the default formats for data types.
Table C–1: Default Display Formats for Data Types Data Type of Expression Default Format Character x(8) Date 99/99/99 Decimal ->>,>>9.99 1 Integer ->,>>>,>>9 1 Logical yes/no
- If you use the European Numeric Format (-E) startup option, the default format for decimal numbers is ->>.>>9,99 and the default format for integers is >>.>>>.>>99. For more information about European numeric formats, see the "Numeric Display Formats" section in this appendix.
The display format of a field indicates how Results displays the data in that field. it has nothing to do with the actual data that is stored in the database. For example, a name field could be 40 characters long in the database, but if the display format is x(20), only the first twenty characters out of forty display.
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