Re: current best practice" packed/11/4 to char/5

%int().   ah, yes.  Glad I asked.  Knew about %int() yet I didn't connect the dots.  Thank you,

As to the decimal places:  The same conversation that "guaranteed" it'd never be over 99 also assured me there'd never be fractional quantities,  We had > 99 within 72 hours; I am going with truncating and no leading zeros.

%char(%int()) it shall be then.

Thank you Jon.


On 5/23/2019 9:41 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

twoDigitChar = %Char(%Int(ellevenFour));

Would be one approach. But should the decimals round or just be truncated? What do you want if the number is (say) 0.1234 - do you want the zero or blanks? If there is only one significant digit do you want leading zero or blanks? Or perhaps a single digit number should be left aligned in the char field.

Can't talk to "best practice" without an adequate spec Booth.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com