ODS TAGSETS.RTF/ RTF, How does Decimal Alignment work? style(column)={just=d}

[SmithCJGVSU]

How exactly does decimal alignment work?  In particular for character variables that contain percents like:

nn ( pp%)

60 ( 60%)

40 ( 40%)

Is it searching for the decimal from left-to-right then aligns on it?  Or, is it searching from right to left?  Will other symbols cause trouble like ( and %? What if there is not "." at all?  Looking for some general information on how just=d works in a DEFINE statement of proc report.

style(column)={just=d}

[ballardw]

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that decimal alignment only works with numeric values. Since a character value could look like:

"12. abc. 3.4" which of the three decimals would be aligned?

Also for National Language Support issues a "decimal alignment" should be able to use the comma when that is the decimal separator.

From some documentation on ODS language statements:

ODS DECIMAL_ALIGN Statement

Controls the justification of numeric columns when no justification is specified.