>Use transform() instead (without a format code). It won't truncate or round the number.
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>>Is there a way to determine the # of decimal places in a number. I need to export data from tables. Once I know that the field is numeric I need to know how many decimal places there are for the str() command.
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Peter,
I was thinking along those same lines but transform() does truncate trailing zeros when a format string is not specified. So if your field is N(6,4) and you have a value in it of 8.2500, transform will return 8.25.