http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/trimming-trailing-zeros/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/trimming-trailing-zeros/#comment-112782 philpl1jb Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:39:40 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/trimming-trailing-zeros/#comment-112782 Any numeric field that is 25 – 9 contains 9 digits beyond the decimal. 
When you use this field you can control how it is displayed, reported, or used in subsequent processing.
 

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/trimming-trailing-zeros/#comment-112776 TomLiotta Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:35:28 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/trimming-trailing-zeros/#comment-112776 I have a numeric field of 25,9 in a file.
 
It’s “numeric”, but what is its data type? There are a number of different numeric data types. Technically, if the data type was zoned-decimal, you could force the value to be written to the file with trailing blanks; but it would be the cause of trouble later because it would be a numeric field that had non-numeric data in it. Later programs would have errors.
 
If you only want three decimal places, then don’t define the field to have nine decimal places. You can’t validly remove trailing decimal zeros without changing the definition. (Nor is there any reason to do it. Just because you want to, isn’t a valid reason.)
 
Tom

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