>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?

Hi James,

In addition to what Ian said, you can use TRANSFORM(a) to convert the type. However, trailing zeros will be removed. Optionally, you can add a format to preserve these.