>I am writing a value like 1.47 into a file on the way into the file i am taking this value and doing a alltrim(str(round(a,2))) like so because it is a numeric feild going to a alpha once i write it to the file it works fine but it chops off everything to the right of the decimal i tried taking the alltrim off and no luck any ideas?

James,

Give the STR function a length and number of decimals parameter

i.e. alltrim( str(round(a,2), 10, 2))

HTH