Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Reporting:
Query/Results for UNIX

Default display formats

Table C–1 shows the default formats for data types.

Table C–1: Default display formats for data types 

Data type of expression	Default format
Character	x(8)
Date	99/99/99
Decimal	->>,>>9.99 1
Integer	->,>>>,>>9 1
Logical	yes/no
If you use the European Numeric Format (-E) startup option, the default format for decimal numbers is ->>.>>9,99 and the default format for integers is >>.>>>.>>99. For more information about European numeric formats, see the "Numeric display formats" section section in this appendix.

The display format of a field indicates how Results displays the data in that field. it has nothing to do with the actual data that is stored in the database. For example, a name field could be 40 characters long in the database, but if the display format is x(20), only the first twenty characters out of forty display.