>>>I am trying to create a generic way to convert any number to a string. Here are some examples, of the number and how they should be as a string:
>>>
>>>

>>>2.4       ->  "2.4"
>>>.00       -> ".00"
>>>500.32337   -> "500.32337"
>>>8.342    -> "8.342"
>>>

>>>
>> [Rick Hodgin's reply]
>>
>Your StrTrim() is good; thank you. But it requires that I specify the number of decimals. And I am trying to figure how to do it for any number.
>That is, in my case, I have to SCAN records of a table where the column could have different values (as you see in my example above). And in each row, the numeric value has to be changed to the char; matching exactly.

Hi, Dmitry

I'm really intrigued about the ".00" example. Why wouldn't it be just "0"?

If it were,

EVL(ALLTRIM(STR(SomeNumericValue, 40, 18), 0, " ", "0", SET("Point")), "0")

would do the trick (sorry, I was too lazy to figure the value of the 2nd and 3rd STR() arguments exactly, so these are overly generous).