Format Settings

Format Settings

Panel used to set the formats to parse and display numbers, dates and boolean values in Matrex.

Decimal pattern
is the format used to parse numbers.
Decimal separator and grouping separator tell which characters are used as decimal and grouping separators.

Dates are parsed using the Date Time Pattern if they contain both a date and a time part, using the Only Date Pattern if they contain only a date part, using the Only Time Pattern if they contain only a time part.
The parser tries to apply all of these formats when parsing dates.

Text For True is the text used to represent the true boolean values as a text, both for parsing (parsing is independent by the letter case) and to display the value.

If strict parsing is selected, errors parsing dates and numbers are reported to the users, otherwise parsing text that is not parsable returns 0 for numbers and a zero-equivalent date (1-1-1970) for dates.