Printing number in French format

Finance and Operations/AX Developer Forum
1

Is there a way to specify the language while printing a number.

The below code prints “123.66”

real i = 123.66;
print i;

I want to print this number as “123,66”

Is there any X++ function which does this format change?

Thanks in advance,
Sasi

2

Yes, use num2str() function to format the actual string output of the number.

real i = 123.66;

print num2str(i,9,2,","," ");

Read more here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa866120.aspx

3

Hi Janis,

You are right, I can use num2str() function for formatting real numbers.

I wanted to know whether there is any X++ function which takes the language and the real number as input and does the formatting automatically.

Thanks,

Sasi

4

There is no such thing decimal separators settings per countries.

If you are keen, you can do a simple modification - add an ENUM field DecimalSeparator to AddressCountryRegion table allowing just values “.” and “,”.

Then just use your specific formatting approach in code like this:

print num2str(i,9,2,AddressCountryRegion::find(“FR”).DecimalSeparator," ");

5

Thanks a lot for your suggestion. This increases my work [:)], but it is a good way to format numbers.

Thanks,

Sasi