The previous tutorial used the BLANK operand to change the way all numeric values in the report are displayed. You can use formatting items to change the appearance of individual numeric fields and their related statistics in the report, with respect to separators, number of digits, decimal point, decimal places, signs, leading zeros, division, leading strings, floating strings, and trailing strings. Formatting items can also be used to insert leading strings or trailing strings for character fields.
Formatting items are written as part of the ON operand, separated by commas, as follows: ON(p,m,f,formatting), ON(VLEN,formatting) and ON(NUM,formatting). EDCOUNT(formatting) can be used to specify formatting items for the count.