Hi Sergey,

thank you for pointing out this use of PADL. It seems to be the only way to get all the decimals independing of set fixed... I have searched a long time for something likethis but I have never looked that close to te function.

Agnes

>>Hi all,
>>
>>Is there a way to know how many decimal places a current variable has?
>>

>>Example:
>>x=1.000
>>y=3.0
>>z=5.12004
>>* How to get the decimal places for each variable?
>>

>>
>Try

>lnNumber = 1.000
>lcStr = PADL(lnNumber,20)
>IF AT(".", lcStr) = 0
>  ? 0
>ELSE
>  ? LEN(SUBSTR(lcStr, AT(".", lcStr)+1))
>ENDIF