Also youcan check the precision of the numeric field with AFIELDS() the 4 column of the array created is the number of decimal places for the field.

>Since size and dec must be passed as arguments to the function, this is hardly a general approach. In fact, knowing that information, it would be simpler to hardcode the value in the scope expression (like Caroline suggested).
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>Strangely, VFP seems to not have a function to give you the precision of a numeric field, or am I missing something?
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>bye