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Keeping last 4 digits?
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From
08/07/2006 19:21:09
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
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08/07/2006 16:20:19
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01134716
Message ID:
01134729
Views:
18
>I have a series of numbers with up to 9 significant digits after the decimal point and would like to truncate the character values down to 4 significant digits.
>
>For example I have the following two values:
>
>123.456789012
>98.765432109
>
>I want to return these values:
>
>123.4567
>98.7654
>
>I can write a function to use something like ATC() to find the decimal point but is there a better way? Sergey, you will no doubt have something interesting and insightful so thanks in advance...:>)

? INT(m.lnNumber)+int((m.lnNumber - INT(m.lnNumber))*10^4)/10^4
PS:
? INT(m.lnNumber*10^4)/10^4
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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