>>>Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>Does anybody knows a simple way of removing 0's from a character field. Ex:
>>>
>>>'004'
>>>
>>>I want the content of the field to have '4'.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Sergio O.
>>
>>Hi Sergio,
>>
>>Just to demonstrate that there's more than one way. If you're using VFP 6.0:

lcresult = TRANSFORM(VAL('004'))

>>Only two function calls< g >.
>
>Hi George,
>
>I wasn't aware that the 2nd parameter was now optional. It's also different then what you get with an empty 2nd parameter. TRANSFORM(VAL('004'),'') returns ' 4.00' or however many 0's that SET DECIMAL is set to. Thanks for pointing that out.

Hi Fred,

Yep, in 6.0, the second parameter is optional. I don't recall if I noticed that from the docs or from one of the posts here. I do recall, however, that it (the ability to return a string without having to go through the TRIM()) busines was an item on the Wish List here at the UT.