Hi Jon

Try

SET DECIMALS TO 5

Bruce

>In a piece of method code, I am attempting to create a string which includes a numeric value that specifically needs 5 decimal places. I thought I could save time by doing something like this:
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>TRANSFORM(nRate, "99.99999")
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>However, in a test case where nRate is 0.5425, the above statement returns 0.54. Interestingly enough, when no format code is used, TRANSFORM() will return 0.5425. Obviously, I know I can change the code to use ALLTRIM(STR()), but I don't understand why the above statement does any rounding whatsoever on a numeric value that clearly does not exceed the size of the format.
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>Any ideas??
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>Laterness,
>Jon