Base Operating System and Extensions Technical Reference, Volume 2 strfmon Subroutine Purpose Formats monetary strings. This parameter also contains numeric values to be converted. Characters are placed into the S array, as controlled by the Format parameter. The strfmon subroutine can be called multiple times by including additional format structures, as specified by the Format parameter. The Format parameter specifies a character string that can contain plain characters and conversion specifications.
Plain characters are copied to the output stream.
Conversion specifications result in the fetching of zero or more arguments, which are converted and formatted. If there are insufficient arguments for the Format parameter, the results are undefined. If arguments remain after the Format parameter is exhausted, the excess arguments are ignored. Parameters S Contains the output of the strfmon subroutine. Format Contains characters and conversion specifications.