>I'm working on developing an app that has a lot of different monetary calculations and fields. In FoxPro 2.x I always used Numeric and I was going to do the same here when I remembered the Currency type. However, the VFP documentation doesn't give much usefull info regarding this data type, so I would be grateful for some insight as to what the benefits, if any, there are to using Currency instead of Numeric. TIA

Colin,

The single major advantage of currency over numerioc is that currency can store values from – 922337203685477.5808 to 922337203685477.5807 in 8 bytes. Those values would require 20 bytes as numeic. Other than that there is very luittle difference, beside of course that currency has a fixed decimal length of 4. But you can format the display to any number of decimals up to 4.