Hi!
I don't know exactly. What do you want to get by your question? It looks for me you want to figure out bug instead of solving problem. I found solution, the rest - I don't know about.
Question could not be invalid. Only answer could be invalid.
>>? transform(-$922337203685477.5807,'99999999999999999.9999')
>>shows -922337203685477.5807
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>TRANSFORM really does a thing. But 16 digits handled by STR aren't an effect of converting currency to numeric. Notice that
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>>>str(-922337203685477.5807,21,4)=='-922337203685477.6000'
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>doesn't deal with currency type variable or literal. So the question about the STR is valid.
Vlad Grynchyshyn, Project Manager, MCP
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The professional level of programmer could be determined by level of stupidity of his/her bugs
It is not appropriate to say that question is "foolish". There could be only foolish answers. Everybody passed period of time when knows nothing about something.
