The NUMVAL-C Function

Arguments

1. Argument-1 must be an alphanumeric

    or national

   literal or an alphanumeric

    or national

   data item whose content has one of the following two formats:

   
   
   

   or

   
   
   

   where space is a string of zero or more spaces, cs is the string of one or more characters specified by argument-2 and digit is a string of one or more digits.

2. If the DECIMAL POINT IS COMMA clause is specified in the Special-Names paragraph, the functions of the comma and decimal point in argument-1 are reversed.
3. The total number of digits in argument-1 must not exceed 18.
4. Argument-2, if specified, must be of the same class as argument-1.

   It cannot be a digit, comma, space, plus sign(+), minus sign (-) or decimal point.

5. If argument-2 is not specified, the character used for cs is the currency string specified for the program when argument-1 is of class alphanumeric

    ; or if argument-1 is of class national, the national representation of the currency string specified for the program. The national representation of cs is the value returned from FUNCTION NATIONAL-OF (cs).