Fractional Separator (-numdec)

Use Fractional Separator (-numdec) to change the character that represents a number's decimal point in formatted text. The default decimal point is the period (.).

Operating system and syntax UNIX / Windows -numdec numeric-value
Use with Maximum value Minimum value Single-user default Multi-user default
Client Session — — . (period) . (period)
numeric-value

The numeric value of the character that represents the decimal point.

The AVM converts numeric-value to its character equivalent using the code page corresponding to the Internal Code Page (-cpinternal) startup parameter.

The decimal point cannot be represented by any of the following:

  • The characters B C D R Z z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + - < > ( ) * ?
  • The space character
  • Any multi-byte character

In the following example, -numdec is used to change the decimal point in formatted text to a comma (which, in the ISO8859-1 code page, has a numeric value of 44): 

-numdec 44