Thanks Hilmar, It worked.

>>Hi Everybody,
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>>How do I determine the decimal length of a numeric expression? For example for 678.76548 it is five.
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>>Thank you,
>>Ali
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>transform() is not very trustworthy, and results vary with different VFP versions, but you can convert to text with padr() or padl():
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>? alltrim(padr(678.76548, 30))
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>From the result, you can search for the position of the point, or, safer, of the expression set("point") (in L.A. we use a comma; the situation is similar in most of Europe). Use the at() function.