Check PADL, PADR and PADC functions

Exemple

N = 122.011121
? LTRIM(PADL(N),25)
==> 122.011121



>Hello people,
>
>I have a little question that's really bugging me...
>I am trying to write a generic routine to work out the maximum width of the data in a column in a grid.
>
>If the data is Numeric I run into problems
>Str(1.23456) returns 1
>So I have to specify the Length & decimal places
>Str(1.23456, 8,5)
>
>When I know the format of the number it's easy but how do I do this when I don't know how many dec places the number has?
>
>I can get this info from the source table (aFields) but there HAS to be a cleaner way of doing this.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>TIA
>Will