Microsoft KB Archive/247494

= BUG: Transform Results Formatted Incorrectly =

Article ID: 247494

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q247494



SYMPTOMS
You might see that the results of the TRANSFORM function appear off by approximately .0000000000001. This behavior may occur when COMPATIBLE is OFF. However, when COMPATIBLE is ON, the expected behavior is observed.



Workaround
Here are three ways to work around this behavior:   Use this code: SET COMPATIBLE ON -or-   Use this code: ALLTRIM(STR(, , )) -or-   Use this code: SET DECIMALS TO  SET FIXED ON 

NOTE: Setting the nDecimalPlaces to >= 15 for any work around results in an overflow error.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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MORE INFORMATION
The TRANSFORM function was modified to allow the developer to issue Transform(<nExpr>) without a format or picture clause. The result is similar to ALLTRIM(STR(<nExpr>, <nLength>, <nDecimalPlaces>)).

How to Reproduce the Behavior
Enter the following code in a program and run the program: CLEAR cCompatible = SET("COMPATIBLE") SET COMPATIBLE OFF ? "Precision automatically jumps to 15 decimal places " ? "with overflows displayed at 1.6"

FOR i = 1 TO 3 STEP .1 ? TRANSFORM(i) ENDFOR SET COMPATIBLE &cCompatible The values should begin to miscalculate around the number 1.6.

Additional query words: TRANSFORM, ALLTRIM, STR, BUG,PRECISION,OVERFLOW

Keywords: kbbug kbxbase kbcodesnippet kbpending KB247494

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