Cripes...I wasn't adding the format and just doing a straight TO_CHAR.....
gaaaahhhhhh.....
Thanks people....
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Try 99999.000 instead.
- Kirti
- "Odland, Brad" <Brad.Odland_at_qtiworld.com> wrote:
> Tried that.
>
> 1234.1 won't show the trailing zeros...
>
>
>
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>
> Not sure if this is the best way but you could do something like SELECT
> TO_CHAR(10000,'9999999.999') FROM DUAL;
>
> Only drawback that I have been running into is if you don't allot of
enough
> spaces before the decimal it display a value of ########.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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>
>
> > How do I force display of a FLOAT
> >
> > in a format like
> >
> > Original number Result
> > 1234.34 1234.340
> > 12345.456 12345.456
> > 123.1 123.100
> > 123 123.000
> >
> >
> > The dev on a project wants to preformat the data for a report on the
> > database side.
> >
> > He wants 3 places after the decimal to display even if the number is a
> whole
> > number....
> >
> > (I know most VB report controls do this easily....but...)
> >
> > I thought it was complicated as it would require a to_char with format
> > description then searching for the postion of the decimal and then
moving
> > from there to the right counting the characters if the number of
> characters
> > to the right of the decimal was < 3 then pad with zeros...
> >
> > I messed around with RPAD, TRUNC, ROUND and TO_CHAR and found I was not
> able
> > handle all cases of possible significant digits.
> >
> > Sounded like a complicated function to do something thats automagic in a
> > reporting control. Or am I forgetting a oracle function....or fomat?
> >
> > This is 8.1.7....
> >
> > I told the developer to use the field formatting contols of his
reporting
> > control because the additional zeros padded in a number are basically
> > meaningless in a database and mathematical operations.
> >
> > Brad O.
> >
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