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Variant Formats

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When formatting a variant a variety of format strings may be used to generate different kinds of formatted output. A format string consists of either a named format, or a user-defined format.

The following named formats are defined:

 Name           Description

 ----           -----------

 General Date   Display Date, and time for non-integer values

 Short Date     Short date format as defined by locale settings

 Medium Date    Medium date format as defined by locale settings

 Long Date      Long date format as defined by locale settings

 Short Time     Short Time format as defined by locale settings

 Medium Time    Medium time format as defined by locale settings

 Long Time      Long time format as defined by locale settings

 True/False     Localised text of "True" or "False"

 Yes/No         Localised text of "Yes" or "No"

 On/Off         Localised text of "On" or "Off"

 General Number No thousands separator. No decimal points for integers

 Currency       General currency format using localised characters

 Fixed          At least one whole and two fractional digits

 Standard       Same as 'Fixed', but including decimal separators

 Percent        Multiply by 100 and display a trailing '%' character

 Scientific     Display with exponent.

User-defined formats consist of a combination of tokens and literal characters. Literal characters are copied unmodified to the formatted output at the position they occupy in the format string. Any character that is not recognised as a token is treated as a literal. A literal can also be specified by preceding it with a backslash character (e.g. "t\

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