I have a report where I want to display various amounts of money that can be in many different currencies. My query provides me with the currency symbol and three letter country code (eg GBP or USD) for each value, but I do not have the country ISO code.
How can I format the value expression to use the correct currency symbol?
I cannot simply put the currency symbol in front of the value as some values can be negative, so I would want the minus sign to come before the currency symbol.
I put together some custom code to do this:
Public Function Currency(ByVal s As String,ByVal a As Double) As String
Dim r As String
If a < 0 Then
r = "(" + s + FORMAT(-1*a,"#,0.00") + ")"
ElseIf a = 0
r = "-"
Else
r = s + FORMAT(a,"#,0.00")
End If
Return r
End Function
Here I am passing in the currency symbol as s
and the amount as a