>>>Is there a way to convert the string that has a slash to a numeric (without parsing the string)? For example, make "1/4" to .25, "1/2" to ".5" and so one?
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>>>TIA
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>>depends on your definition of "parsing" ;-))
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>>luR = iif(vartype(m.lcS)=="C" and occurs("/",m.lcS), eval(m.lcS), m.lcS)
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>How would you reverse that, Thomas?
>e.g. convert .25 to "1/4"

I did that once, but for inches only, and rounded it to eights. Something like

lparameter tnLen
lcInt=tran(int(tnLen), "999")
lnFrac=tnLen % 1
lnEights=round(lnFrac*8,0)
lcRet=ltrim(lcInt)+" "+tran(lnEights,"9")+"/8"
return lcRet

IIRC I also had some logic to see if lnEights was an even number, then it would be quarters, or if that was even, make it 1/2.

For the general case, I'd go for the divisors up to, say, 32, and then pick the one with the least rounding error.