>>You were also missing a few closing parenthesis in your code (or doesn't VFP 9 require closing parenthesis).
>That's because, unlike Naomi, I did some experimenting, and started with:
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>y = STRTRAN(STR(x),"0","")
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>Then I realised it needed to be a number again, so I did:
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>z=VAL(x)
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>Then I realised it was real so did
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>z= INT(z)
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>Then I threw it all together in one statement but, lordamighty, I forgot the close parenths. Unlike a certain question-asker we all know, I'm sure Naomi would have caught onto that one when th ecompiler complained.

"Excuses: Excuses are the tool of the incompetent. They build monuments of nothing. Those who specialize in them seldom amount to anything. Excuses." <bg>

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>>LMAO reminds me of that saying that you shouldn't throw rocks if you are in a glass house.
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>"People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"
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>You may well LYAO but the point is I offered a (imperfect) answer, compiled in 2 minutes - I tried, rather than giving up, and rather than lurking and waiting for someone to make a boob.

Well I must admidt that I tried to solve Naomi's original problem, but I looked at it from a mathematical point of view using numbers (which the title and body suggested). I thought about it for about 5 minutes before deciding that it would be so much easier to convert to a string and remove the unwanted zero's that I gave up on the mathematical approach with numbers.

The reason I decided to "pick" on you was because of your inappropriate comment to Naomi.