Hi Chuck.

>Is there a function that will return how many decimal places a numberic field has?

If the table is open, you could use something like (where FIELDNAME is the name of the field):

lcValue    = transform(FIELDNAME)
lnPlace    = at('.', lcValue)
lnLen      = len((lcValue)
lnDecimals = iif(lnPlace = 0, 0, lnLen - lnPlace)

This is actually more code than using Mark's suggestion of AFIELDS, which can be reduced to the admittedly dense {g}:

afields(laFields)
lnDecimals = laFields[ascan(laFields, 'FIELDNAME', -1, -1, 1, 15), 4]

Doug