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You can perform financial calculations in OmniMark using the BCD data type to represent monetary values and fractional numbers such as tax rates. Unlike floating point numbers, BCD numbers provide accurate fractions for financial calculations.
The following code sample shows basic financial calculations using BCD numbers. Note that literal BCD values must be preceded by the keyword bcd.
include "ombcd.xin"
process
local bcd price
local bcd tax-rate
local integer quantity
local bcd total
set price to bcd 19.95
set tax-rate to bcd 0.07
set quantity to 28
set total to price * quantity * (1 + tax-rate)
output "<$,NNZ.ZZ>" % total
The format string "<$,NNZ.ZZ>" uses the BCD template language to create an output string with a leading "$", commas separating digits into groups of three, and two digits after the decimal point.
The following code shows how to read a decimal number from an HTML form and assign the value to a BCD number:
include "ombcd.xin"
include "omcgi.xin"
declare #process-input has unbuffered
declare #process-output has binary-mode
process
local stream form-data variable
local stream cgi-data variable
local bcd price
local bcd tax-rate
local integer quantity
local bcd total
cgiGetEnv into cgi-data
cgiGetQuery into form-data
set price to bcd form-data{"price"}
set tax-rate to bcd 0.07
set quantity to 28
set total to price * quantity * (1 + tax-rate)
output "Content-type: text/html"
|| crlf
|| crlf
|| "<html><body>"
|| "<H1>Order confirmation</H1>"
|| "Your total comes to: "
|| "<$,NNZ.ZZ>" % total
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