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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.
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>>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.
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>It doesn't add zeros but it doesn't strip them either. So ? TRANSFORM(1.1000) returns 1.1000 instead of 1.1
That's what I don't like. Anyway, it seems to me that depending on your specific needs, you might be better of creating a UDF (or using a more complicated expression), to strip superfluous zeroes.
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)
