Oracle Forms Developer – Form Builder Reference, Volume 1

Contains fixed or floating point numbers, in the range of 1.0x10-129 to 9.99x10124, with one or more of
the following characteristics:
• signed
• unsigned
• containing a decimal point
• in regular notation
• in scientific notation
• up to 38 digits of precision
NUMBER items refer to NUMBER or FLOAT columns in the database, and Form Builder processes
their values as true numbers (not character strings).
Default 0
Restrictions Commas cannot be entered into a number item (e.g., 99,999). Use a format mask
instead.
Example -1, 1, 1.01, 10.001, 1.85E3
RINT
Displays integer values as right-justified.
Restrictions V3 data type
RMONEY
Included for backward compatibility. Instead, follow these recommendations:
Use the NUMBER data type.
Displays MONEY values as right-justified.
Restrictions V3 data type
RNUMBER
Apply a format mask such as 999 to produce a right-justified number.
Included for backward compatibility. Instead, follow these recommendations:
Use the NUMBER data type
Displays NUMBER values as right-justified.
Restrictions V3 data type
Apply a format mask such as $999.99 to produce a right-justified number.
Included for backward compatibility. Instead, follow these recommendations:
Use the NUMBER data type.
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