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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