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  The custom output formats can be specified by means of the VTL formatting mask described in the section "Type Conversion and Formatting Mask" of the VTL Reference Manual. Such a section describes the masks for the VTL basic scalar types "number", "integer", "date", "time", "time_period" and "duration" and gives examples. As for the types "string" and "boolean" the VTL conventions are extended with some other special characters as described in the following table.
--|(% colspan="2" %)VTL special characters for the formatting masks
--|(% colspan="2" %)
--|(% colspan="2" %)Number
--|D|one numeric digit (if the scientific notation is adopted, D is only for the mantissa)
--|E|one numeric digit (for the exponent of the scientific notation)
--|. (dot)|possible separator between the integer and the decimal parts.
--|, (comma)|possible separator between the integer and the decimal parts.
--| |
--|(% colspan="2" %)Time and duration
--|C|century
--|Y|year
--|S|semester
--|Q|quarter
--|M|month
--|W|week
--|D|day
--|h|hour digit (by default on 24 hours)
--|M|minute
--|S|second
--|D|decimal of second
--|P|period indicator (representation in one digit for the duration)
--|P|number of the periods specified in the period indicator
--|AM/PM|indicator of AM / PM (e.g. am/pm for "am" or "pm")
--|MONTH|uppercase textual representation of the month (e.g., JANUARY for January)
--|DAY|uppercase textual representation of the day (e.g., MONDAY for Monday)
--|Month|lowercase textual representation of the month (e.g., january)
--|Day|lowercase textual representation of the month (e.g., monday)
--|Month|First character uppercase, then lowercase textual representation of the month (e.g., January)
--|Day|First character uppercase, then lowercase textual representation of the day using (e.g. Monday)
--| |
--|(% colspan="2" %)String
--|X|any string character
--|Z|any string character from "A" to "z"
--|9|any string character from "0" to "9"
--| |
--|(% colspan="2" %)Boolean
--|B|Boolean using "true" for True and "false" for False
--|1|Boolean using "1" for True and "0" for False
--|0|Boolean using "0" for True and "1" for False
--| |
--|(% colspan="2" %)Other qualifiers
--|*|an arbitrary number of digits (of the preceding type)
--|+|at least one digit (of the preceding type)
--|( )|optional digits (specified within the brackets)
--|\|prefix for the special characters that must appear in the mask
--|N|fixed number of digits used in the preceding textual representation of the month or the day
--| |
++(% style="width:713.294px" %)
++|(% colspan="2" style="width:710px" %)VTL special characters for the formatting masks
++|(% colspan="2" style="width:710px" %)
++|(% colspan="2" style="width:710px" %)Number
++|D|(% style="width:486px" %)one numeric digit (if the scientific notation is adopted, D is only for the mantissa)
++|E|(% style="width:486px" %)one numeric digit (for the exponent of the scientific notation)
++|. (dot)|(% style="width:486px" %)possible separator between the integer and the decimal parts.
++|, (comma)|(% style="width:486px" %)possible separator between the integer and the decimal parts.
++| |(% style="width:486px" %)
++|(% colspan="2" style="width:710px" %)Time and duration
++|C|(% style="width:486px" %)century
++|Y|(% style="width:486px" %)year
++|S|(% style="width:486px" %)semester
++|Q|(% style="width:486px" %)quarter
++|M|(% style="width:486px" %)month
++|W|(% style="width:486px" %)week
++|D|(% style="width:486px" %)day
++|h|(% style="width:486px" %)hour digit (by default on 24 hours)
++|M|(% style="width:486px" %)minute
++|S|(% style="width:486px" %)second
++|D|(% style="width:486px" %)decimal of second
++|P|(% style="width:486px" %)period indicator (representation in one digit for the duration)
++|P|(% style="width:486px" %)number of the periods specified in the period indicator
++|AM/PM|(% style="width:486px" %)indicator of AM / PM (e.g. am/pm for "am" or "pm")
++|MONTH|(% style="width:486px" %)uppercase textual representation of the month (e.g., JANUARY for January)
++|DAY|(% style="width:486px" %)uppercase textual representation of the day (e.g., MONDAY for Monday)
++|Month|(% style="width:486px" %)lowercase textual representation of the month (e.g., january)
++|Day|(% style="width:486px" %)lowercase textual representation of the month (e.g., monday)
++|Month|(% style="width:486px" %)First character uppercase, then lowercase textual representation of the month (e.g., January)
++|Day|(% style="width:486px" %)First character uppercase, then lowercase textual representation of the day using (e.g. Monday)
++| |(% style="width:486px" %)
++|(% colspan="2" style="width:710px" %)String
++|X|(% style="width:486px" %)any string character
++|Z|(% style="width:486px" %)any string character from "A" to "z"
++|9|(% style="width:486px" %)any string character from "0" to "9"
++| |(% style="width:486px" %)
++|(% colspan="2" style="width:710px" %)Boolean
++|B|(% style="width:486px" %)Boolean using "true" for True and "false" for False
++|1|(% style="width:486px" %)Boolean using "1" for True and "0" for False
++|0|(% style="width:486px" %)Boolean using "0" for True and "1" for False
++| |(% style="width:486px" %)
++|(% colspan="2" style="width:710px" %)Other qualifiers
++|*|(% style="width:486px" %)an arbitrary number of digits (of the preceding type)
++|+|(% style="width:486px" %)at least one digit (of the preceding type)
++|( )|(% style="width:486px" %)optional digits (specified within the brackets)
++|\|(% style="width:486px" %)prefix for the special characters that must appear in the mask
++|N|(% style="width:486px" %)fixed number of digits used in the preceding textual representation of the month or the day
  The default conversion, either standard or customized, can be used to deduce automatically the representation of the components of the result of a VTL Transformation. In alternative, the representation of the resulting SDMX Dataflow can be given explicitly by providing its DataStructureDefinition. In other words, the representation specified in the DSD, if available, overrides any default conversion{{footnote}}The representation given in the DSD should obviously be compatible with the VTL data type.{{/footnote}}.