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26/04/2002 11:32:17
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00649247
Message ID:
00649637
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>>transform() should work, but it doesn't always give the desired results. For instance, transform(-80.9) gives -80,90000000000001 on my computer (VFP 6, SP5).
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>>You may be better of writing your own function for this purpose.
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>In VFP7 it correctly returns -80.9.

I am aware of the fact that the problem has been partly corrected. But I also heard that it sometimes adds an - unneeded - zero at the end.

Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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