Hi Agnes,

You're welcome.

>
>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 the function.
>
>>>
>>Try

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