Hi Franco! You beat me by two seconds!!
>Hi Julie,
>try with
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>ALLTRIM(STR(field,10,2))
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>take a look (in the help) at the STR() function which accept more than 1 parameter
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>HTH
>franco
>
>>I have a (hope to be) simple one for you.
>>
>>I am trying to convert a numeric field with two decimal places into a character field. That is easy enough, but I want to carry over the decimal and the two characters behind it. If I use ALLTRIM(STR(field)) and the record is 200.50 I get 201 in my converted field. I want to see 200.50 not 201.