>>>Dumb question... I looked in help but couldn't find (it's too late a night!) how to convert a currency field to a character string, without it rounding up! A currency field (bucks) containing 399.75 becomes "400" if I STR(bucks) or STR(MTON(bucks)), I just want a string containing "399.75". What am I missing?
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>>If you use STR(), you need to specify the two optional parameters that specify the size and decimal precision of the resulting character string; the default is to return just the integer portions.
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>>Try STR(bucks,10,2) to get back a 10 character string with two decimals to the right of the decimal point. Note: you will get back ".00" this way when taking the STR() of an integer value.
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>If you are using VFP 6.0 try Transform( bucks )

It's a currency data type - TRANSFORM() will prefix it with the currency symbol, and will create the number of decimals in the return string as specified with the current SET DECIMALS value. STR() has far better control of string length and the number of decimals unless this behavior fits the application requirements.