[DUG] SQL question

[Mark Howard]

Hi Jason
This would be quite difficult as the CSV export routine is quite generic, being used in many different situations and even if I get it to determine when it is handling a numeric field, it is not that straightforward to determine whether it should be formatted to 1, 2 or 3 decimal places.
But it may come to that, yet.
(Unless I just get the people reading the CSV file into Excel to format the column correctly ;-)
Mark
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:49:19 +1200, Jason Saggers <jsaggers at esp.co.nz> wrote:

> You could always use a string format in the output to CSV statement, and
> not have to worry about having the DB provide the correct format.
>
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Howard [mailto:mhoward at pslog.co.nz]
> Sent: Friday, 24 June 2005 11:45 a.m.
> To: delphi at ns3.123.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [DUG] SQL question
>
> Traci
> I've tried round and trunc but they both drop any trailing "0"'s I'v
> also cast to Char but I can't find anything in the DBISAM documentation
> about casting to a defined format of Char  ie $$$.$$ or F5.2 etc I want
> to avoid doing a complicated manipulation involving string lengths and
> substrings to build what I want - if there is another way.
> Thanks
> Mark
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:35:08 +1200, Traci Sumpter
> <Traci.Sumpter at opus.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Depends on the database, there are formating type functions like
>> to_char , round, trunc etc...
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
>> [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On Behalf Of Mark Howard
>> Sent: Friday, 24 June 2005 11:23 a.m.
>> To: delphi at ns3.123.co.nz
>> Subject: [DUG] SQL question
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way to return a figure of (say) 32.30 from a SQL
>> SELECT statement, instead of the 32.3?
>> I would like the returned number formatted as I'm just sending the
>> dataset straight out to a CSV file.
>>
>> I'm using DBISAM but I'm willing to try ANY suggestions to see if they
> work.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Mark
>>
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