Stop the rounding

[Bruce Easton]

I wrote Friday, September 14, 2007 2:36 PM:
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: Stop the rounding
> 
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> scooter6 at gmail.com wrote Friday, September 14, 2007 2:10 PM:
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> To: Steven Waters
> Cc: Filepro List
> Subject: Re: Stop the rounding
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>   Wouldn't just a simple  mid  statement do the trick?
> 
>    cb=mid(cb,1,3)
> 
>    Scott
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> On 9/13/07, Steven Waters <swaters at triumphinstruments.com> wrote: 
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> Good Day,
> I have a Filepro question.
> 
> I am trying to strip the decimal out of a number.
> I have this written; 
> 
> cb(10,.0)=25
> 
> 25 is (10,.2)
> 
> if the number for field 25 is 880.88
> I get 881 out for dummy cb
> or if the number is 710.00 I get 710 instead of 71000
> 
> How do you strip out a numbers decimal and stop the rounding and 
> dropping of 
> the 00
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve
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> Yes, but only will work if your numbers are always
> the same length.
> 
> Check out the floor and int functions - 
> floor(expression) returns the next less int. w/
> same length, edit as expression whereas
> int(n) return the integer portion of a number.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> Bruce Easton
> STN, Inc.

Oops - I think I misunderstood what you were after.
To remove the "." from a number leaving the rest,
do something like:

Then: xx(10,*)=25; xy(10,*)=xlate(xx,".","")
Then xy will hold your desired result
(but still in non-numeric format).


Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.