MB Software Solutions wrote:
>>> inserts values into the numeric field, and the character fields
>>> DEFAULT
>>> value settings transform the numbers into their character equivalents.
>>> I had been using something like this:
>>>
>>> CREATE CURSOR curReport(nValue n(10,2), cValue c(10) DEFAULT
>>> ALLTRIM(STR(nValue,10,liDecimals)))
>>>
>>> ...where liDecimals is a value set at run time depending on the amount
>>> of decimal places I need for that record insert. In my testing I know
>>> that TRANSFORM would be great like this:
>>>
>>> TRANSFORM(nValue,'999,999.99')
>>>
>>> ...but sometimes I don't want the character representation to have the
>>> same number of decimal positions. My plan B is to create some rigged
>>> UDF whereby I pass the value and the number of decimals places I want
>>> and it parses/builds it for me, but that seems kludgey. Is there a
>>> way
>>> to get the transform to behave variably like I had in my initial
>>> DEFAULT
>>> value with ALLTRIM(STR(..)) without a UDF ??
>>>
This was what I came up with
(method: FormatNumber)
LPARAMETERS tnValue, tiDecimals
LOCAL lcValue as String, lcExpr as String
lcExpr = '999,999'
if tiDecimals > 0 then
lcExpr = lcExpr + '.' + REPLICATE('9',tiDecimals)
endif
lcValue = ALLTRIM(TRANSFORM(tnValue,lcExpr))
return lcValue
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Michael J. Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com
http://fabmate.com
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