The PARSE-AS-CURRENCY is a directive for parsing a currency value that is a string representation of locale currency into a number.
Syntax
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parse-as-currency :source :destination ['locale'] |
The source
specifies the name of the column that contains string representation of locale currency. The destination
contains the parsed value of currency as double
. Optional locale specifies the locale to be used for parsing the string representation of currency in the source
column.
Usage Notes
PARSE-AS-CURRENCY
can be used to parse a string representation of currency into a number. If locale is not specified in the directive, a default of 'en_US' is assumed.
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