Hi Denis,

The decimal point character is controlled by SET SYSFORMATS and SET POINT commands which are scoped to the current data session.

>VFP6
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>I have a decimal field: 1234567891,12
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>I have an index on that decimal field: str( DecimalField,13,2)
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>To search for a value based on that index I want to do a seek. To be able to do that seek I do a STR() on the numeric data.
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>The problem is that str returns a result like this: "1234567891.12"
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>Is there a way to tell STR() that the result should be in the form "1234567881,12"
>instead of <1234567891.12>?
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>I know that I could do a STRTRAN() on what comes out of STR() but I'm wondering if there would be a better option.