Hi Neil,
I don't know of any behavior change, but if there is, it's probably documented. Why not use transform(0.20,'99999999.9')? Here is a generic function I wrote some years ago:
FUNCTION NTOC
PARAMETERS lnInData,lnDecimal
IF PCOUNT()=1
lnDecimal=0
ENDIF
RETURN LTRIM(STR(lnInData,10,lnDecimal))
ntoc(0.20,1)=0.2
ntoc(0.20)=0
>I have noticed a behavior change in the TRANSFORM() function in VFP7.
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>In VFP6,
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>? TRANSFORM(0.20)
>0.2
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>But in VFP7 (I'm running SP1)
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>? TRANSFORM(0.20)
>0.20
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>This is causing me quite a problem, does anyone know why I'm getting this result and how to rectify it? Is this behavior also in VFP8? The help file still states that trailing zeros after a decimal point should be truncated.
>
>Neil Shumsky