Gerard

Glad it worked, however, I did notice one minor error, namely in the
opening line, which should be
if  P1F1 >= 1.000

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Gerard van Loenhout <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Robert, Don, Bruce,
>
> Roberts solution worked. The others I'm afraid did not.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Gerard
>
> 2014-01-27 Robert Pollard <[email protected]>:
> > Gerard
> >
> > I think you would need to store the value in an A9 format field, as the
> > Format Defaults for Decimal Point Character:
> > and Thousands Separator Character are defined for the entire database -
> via
> > Shift-F9
> >
> > Here's a formula that seems to work
> >
> > if  P1F1 > 1.000
> > then
> > subfield[ apply.format[ "HZZ.ZZ9,99" ; P1F1 ] ; "." ; 1 ] ","
> > subfield[ apply.format[ "HZZ.ZZ9,99" ; P1F1 ] ; ".," ; 2 ] "."
> > subfield[ apply.format[ "HZZ.ZZ9,99" ; P1F1 ] ; "," ; 2 ]
> > else
> > subfield[ apply.format[ "HZZ.ZZ9,99" ; P1F1 ] ; "," ; 1 ] "."
> > subfield[ apply.format[ "HZZ.ZZ9,99" ; P1F1 ] ; "," ; 2 ]
> > endif
> >
> >
> > Robert Pollard
> > Information Ecologist
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> > facebook.com/robert.pollard
> > @climatechange3
> > [email protected]
> > 1.212.864.3156
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Gerard van Loenhout
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Good day / evening,
> >>
> >> Does anyone know how to change the comma/point in numbers around?
> >>
> >> I use in fields the European decimals: HZZ.ZZ9,99
> >> (Comma for decimals)
> >>
> >> But there are reports in which I want to make swith them around.
> >> (Point for decimals)
> >>
> >> What formula would I use?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Gerard
> >>
> >>
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