There are multiple formats for textual representation of real numbers
sciReal : ( '+' | '-' )? decimalDigit '.' digitGroup ( ',' digitGroup )* scaleFactor ; digitGroup : decimalDigit decimalDigit decimalDigit ; scaleFactor : ( '+' | '-') decimalDigit+ ; decimalDigit : '0' .. '9' ;
Example: 1.234,567,890E+00
Formatting parameters:
engReal : ( '+' | '-' )? decimalDigit decimalDigit? decimalDigit? ( ',' digitGroup )* '.' digitGroup ( ',' digitGroup )* scaleFactor ; digitGroup : decimalDigit decimalDigit decimalDigit ; scaleFactor : ( '+' | '-') decimalDigit+ ; decimalDigit : '0' .. '9' ;
The numeric value of scaleFactor
must be divisible by three.
Example: 1,234.567,890E+03
Formatting parameters:
ledgerReal : ( '+' | '-' )? whitespace* decimalDigit decimalDigit? decimalDigit? ( ',' digitGroup )* ( '.' decimalDigits+ )? digitGroup : decimalDigit decimalDigit decimalDigit ; decimalDigit : '0' .. '9' ;
Examples: 1,234,567.00 or 1,234,567
Formatting parameters:
simpleReal : ( '+' | '-' )? decimalDigit+ ( '.' decimalDigits+ )? decimalDigit : '0' .. '9' ;
Examples: 123456.7890 or 123456
Formatting parameters:
The standard IO library shall provide the following output procedures for every real number type that is provided by the language core or by the standard library. It shall be recommended that user libraries implementing real number types also provide these procedures.
PROCEDURE Write( f : File; r : <RealType> );
shall produce output in scientific format with 9 places after the decimal point.
PROCEDURE WriteF( f : File; r : <RealType>; n : CARDINAL );
shall produce output in scientific format with n places after the decimal point.
PROCEDURE WriteEng( f : File; r : <RealType>; n, m, exp : CARDINAL );
shall produce output in engineering format with n places before, m places after the decimal point and exponent exp, whereby parameters m and exp shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of three.
PROCEDURE WriteLedger( f : File; r : <RealType>; i, n : CARDINAL );
shall produce output in ledger format with the decimal point at index i and n places after the decimal point.
PROCEDURE WriteFixed( f : File; r : <RealType>; i, n : CARDINAL );
shall produce output in simple format with the decimal point at index i and n places after the decimal point.
The compiler shall expand the WRITE and WRITEF macros when invoked with a real number argument as follows:
WRITE( file, realnum );
shall expand to: TypeOf(realnum)
.Write( file, realnum );
WRITEF( file, realnum, n );
shall expand to: TypeOf(realnum)
.WriteF( file, realnum, n );
WRITEF( file, realnum, i, n );
shall expand to: TypeOf(realnum)
.WriteFixed( file, realnum, i, n );
whereby TypeOf(realnum)
is to be replaced by the name of the real number type.
REAL
LONGREAL
BCD
LONGBCD