>>How would PADL() know that it wasn't you intention for variable to have two decimal places?
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>I would say the best would be to have an additional parameter to that function or to define a SET that would be effective for such. For me, whenever I have PADL(), it's always integer.
I think it would be overkill to have additional parameter or SET command. In your case, you can always use INT().
--sb--