Re: The best way to write an RPG report that prints using currency symbols that can be changed dynamically

The Edit APIs might be worthwhile to implement the desired. An Edit Mask for each currency could be [generated outside of the reporting program and then stored and then] retrieved versus generated, and then call the Edit API to apply the appropriate mask to each value for the reporting.

Also consider avoiding the Currency Symbols\glyphs, using instead, a Currency Code; e.g. USD for U.S.A Dollar and GBP for United Kingdom Pound:
https://www.google.com/search?q=three+letter+currency+code+for+the+UK+pound

FWiW, might a column heading suffice to identify the currency of the numeric values in the column; e.g.?:

Price-USD
123.45

Price-GBP
678.90

Regards, Chuck

On 15-Feb-2012 02:12 , Dunk, Michael - Bognor wrote:

Has anyone come across a good example of how to write an RPG3 report
that can handle different currencies?

E.g. the example I am looking for is where a single report can be
run to print out columns with a dollar symbol or pound depend on a
currency variable:

Some pages of the report would need to print out prices in dollars

Price
$123.45
$678.90

And on another page of the report to print out a column with prices
in pounds:

Price
£123.45
£678.90

Google has turned up discussion about *CURSYM and about how to use
the EDTWRD for floating currency symbols, but no examples of where
currency symbols can be changed dynamically in the program.