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Clauses
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INTERNAL Clause
INTERNAL Clause
The INTERNAL clause allows you to specify the storage format for a user-defined
element. The syntax of the INTERNAL clause is:
internal-format
is the format for storing the user-defined element. Internal-format can be:
The optional INTERNAL clause can appear in a PARAM or DECLARE statement. When
the INTERNAL clause is not used, Enform Plus stores user-defined elements (variables,
aggregates, tables, and parameters) as 64-bit signed integers. The following INTERNAL
clause specifies internal-format as fixed. The element has a total length of eight
digits with two digits following the decimal point:
INTERNAL F8.2
INTERNAL internal-format
An Alphanumeric; n is the length
In Integer; n is the length
Fw.d Fixed; w is the number of digits and d is the number of decimal places