This works:

x = 1.2345

SET DECIMALS TO 4

SET FIXED ON

? TRANSFORM(x, "999.9999")

Laurie

On 31 July 2017 at 11:34, Laurie Alvey <trukker41@gmail.com> wrote:

> SET DECIMALS TO n only works when SET FIXED is ON.

>

> Laurie

>

> On 30 July 2017 at 23:38, 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. With SET DECIMALS set to its

>> default value, a value of 0.0123 is converted to " 0.0100" which loses

>> two digits of precision.

>>

>> I had this problem with another data item that had more than two

>> decimal places. I wrote a special function to handle it by setting SET

>> DECIMALS to the number of decimal places I needed, doing the transform(),

>> and setting SET DECIMALS back to the default.

>>

>> Why did I do that? Because the number of decimal places can vary

>> and I was generating a line of print in one line of code, BUT also, because

>> I really do not understand the point of SET DECIMALS.

>>

>> Could someone please clue me in?

>>

>> Sincerely,

>>

>> Gene Wirchenko

>>

>>

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