I feel that Vince is right with the additional suspicion that since str()
was once the workhorse of ryo reporting (before reportwriters), fox sees it,
at least partially, as a memvar & not just a function. My idea being that
alltim'ing a string that's 10 chars long doesn't do anything. FoxBase paired
it with numeric types (also default width 10) which also have a kind of
mixed lineage: width & decimals values are more related to appearance than
internal storage.
-Lew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vince Teachout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: Alltrim(str(<numeric>)) works, but why?
Chet Gardiner wrote:
The default length for STR(<numeric>) is 10 Characters - right aligned
padded with leading blanks.
Add one for the "/" and you'll default to 21 chars.
Yeah, but the mystery is that he is selecting ALLTRIM(STR( etc, etc, etc.
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