Re: SET DECIMALS Gotcha

Author: Ted Roche

Posted: 2017-08-02 at 09:10:38

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> wrote:

> Hello:

>

> I have just been bitten by SET DECIMALS. (Is there really any use for

> this besides making programming just a bit more difficult?)

>

> I have a table with values to four decimal places. I use

> <vfp>

> transform(thevalue,"999999.9999")

> </vfp>

> to create the string representation.

If you use STR(thevalue,11,4), you should get the result you want.

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