RE: How to display FLOAT in 99999.999 format

Tried that.

1234.1 won't show the trailing zeros...

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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:19 PM
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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.

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:14 PM

> 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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