How to format decimal..?

voodoo

I have a decimal number(field in report) and I tried to use DecimalPlaces property of the field 0:0, because I need numbers before decimal separator:
example:
I have: 26,154.97 and I need: 26,154
and 0:0 doesn't do that.......after that I tried with ROUND:
SalesAmount[j] := ROUND(SalesAmount2[k],1,'>');
and with this I got 26,155.00
I know that i can cast it into integer, but is it possible to do with decimal?

Thanx

jm

Hi,

try it with:

SalesAmount[j] := SalesAmount2[k] DIV 1;

br
Josef Metz

Marije_Brummel

Or

FORMAT(Amount,0,'<Sign><Integer Thousand>');

But this leaves you with a text, not a decimal :?

voodoo

Well... I tried with DIV but still have 26,154.00

Solution with format is ok, but after that I must cast it into decimal because must do some calculations

Marije_Brummel

Why do you want to leave the .00 with calculations??? When the calculations are done the user does not see the value?

Leaving the .00 is only usefull when presenting the value :?

Or am I missing the point here :?:

Savatage

http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8022

voodoo

Mark Brummel wrote:

Why do you want to leave the .00 with calculations??? When the calculations are done the user does not see the value?

Leaving the .00 is only usefull when presenting the value :?

Or am I missing the point here :?:

I think that you didn't understand me, because I don't want to see anything after the decimal separator... that .00 i don't want to see

Marije_Brummel

voodoo wrote:

Well... I tried with DIV but still have 26,154.00

As far as I know there is no difference in calculating with 26,154.00 and 26,154

In the database they are decimal values, the .00 is not stored in the database but only appears on presentation.

The database contains 26154 (Or some weird BCD value)

jm

voodoo wrote:

Mark Brummel wrote:

Why do you want to leave the .00 with calculations??? When the calculations are done the user does not see the value?

Leaving the .00 is only usefull when presenting the value :?

Or am I missing the point here :?:

I think that you didn't understand me, because I don't want to see anything after the decimal separator... that .00 i don't want to see

try to change the Property "DecimalPlaces" to 0:0 in the output control.
br
Josef Metz

kine

voodoo wrote:

Solution with format is ok, but after that I must cast it into decimal because must do some calculations

??? You need to do that only on output - and on output you do not do calculations...

If you need do the calculations, you need to use ROund or DIV 1, after that, when you are presenting the value to the user, you need to use FORMAT or DecimalPlaces...

voodoo

Ok, thank you all