I believe that TRANSFORM() is affected by SET DECIMALS. You probably have it a 2 (the default) and that is all it will recognize for the numeric arguement.

>Dear all,
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>I have a question about the Transform function:
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>transform(0.001,'9.999') returns '0.000'
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>which I expect it to return '0.001'.
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>Any idea of where does it go wrong? I am using VFP9 SP2.
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>Thanks,
>David