>>See Transform()
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>I could have done it with transform by doing something like that:
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>TRANSFORM(lnAmount,"99999999999999999.999999999999999")
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>in order to make room for any kind of data that could be received as a numeric. But, I wanted something clean. So, I ended up with the ALLTRIM(PADL(lnAmount,20)) such as I mentioned in the other message.
No, I think the idea was to use transform() without additional parameters, thusly:
? transform(lnAmount)
This had some inconsistent behavior in older versions, but I think those were fixed in VFP 8 or 9. alltrim(padl(...)) was the safer alternative, for those older versions.
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