Determining the active formatting settings in ABAP

Question

As the ABAP documentation of Formatting Settings explains:

The formatting settings are set as follows:

• At the start of an internal sessio

Answer 1

Maybe you can use the function module CLSE_SELECT_USR01.

The following example:

REPORT test.

START-OF-SELECTION.
  DATA: decimal_sign , separator.

  PERFORM output.
  SET COUNTRY 'US'.
  PERFORM output.


FORM output.
  CALL FUNCTION 'CLSE_SELECT_USR01'
*   EXPORTING
*     USERNAME               = sy-uname
*     IV_DELETE_BUFFER       = ' '
    IMPORTING
*     X_USR01      =
*     DATE_FORMAT  =
      decimal_sign = decimal_sign
      separator    = separator.
  WRITE: / 'DECIMAL_SIGN', decimal_sign, 'separator', separator.
ENDFORM.

shows:

My default locale is DE, so I get the actual setting for decimals.

From your comment:

Unfortunately I have to parse and analyse output data that's prepared for screen display from potentially dozens of different form sources.

Do you get the output at runtime or a previous run? Because there is no time machine to get the locale from a call in the past :)