--- Kit Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> A number of the 'macro extended functions' are exceedingly handy
> creatures. [...] There does not seem to be one that will extract
> the format of a variable, strangely enough!
Kit,
There is such a function, unless you meant something else.
{local | global} macname : format varname
format varname
returns the display format associated with varname.
Friedrich
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