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Chapter Five — General Functions (continued)

IsAccounting Function

Overview

The IsAccounting function tests if the target string is an accounting style number.

Syntax/Parameters

Syntax

boolean = IsAccounting ( string value );

Parameters

value

A string to test.

Return Value

Returns TRUE if value matches an accounting style number or FALSE if it does not.

Remarks

The function checks the string for the presence of digits and zero or more of the following characters:

, . - ( )

The order and placement of the characters is not checked.

Related Functions

IsCurrency — Tests a character or string to see if it is a currency group (allows ‘.’ ‘,’ and ‘(’ ‘)’ characters).

IsCurrencyFormatted — Tests a string as properly formatted currency (US, Euro, Pounds, Yen, cents).

IsCurrencyPrefix — Tests a string for currency leader (i.e., USD$ or CAN$) allowing for other ISO-4217 codes. Following number can be loosely formatted as accounting.

IsCurrencyProper — Tests a string for properly structured currency, i.e., €128,333, allowing for multiple commas and periods for US and European formats. It does not check the number of digits.

IsPercentage — Checks a string to see if it is a percentage such as 0% or 00.00% etc.

Platform Support

Go13, Go16, GoFiler Complete, GoFiler Corporate, GoFiler, GoFiler Lite, GoXBRL

Legato IDE, Legato Basic

 

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