Carriage Return

[akb]

When using the carriage return how do I format the data so it will export with 2 decimals?

In the example below I need the Estimated Material Cost to export in in format: 500.00 --- NOT 500.

MTLCost: [Estimated Material Cost] & Chr(13) & Chr(10) & [C]

I appreciate your help.

 

[jdraw]

Export in what format?(csv, tab delimited..) The decimals are not affected by the carriage return/line feed.
How is estimated material cost defined/dimmed?
What is the & [C]?

You could try
MTLCost:Format( [Estimated Material Cost],"Currency")

 

[akb]

.txt format.

It seems that the decimals are affected. I do not want it to export in currency format because I do not want the $ to export.

The C is needed - this is the format I am exporting:

*,4365
C,76,,MTL,11042014,,,25
C,76,,MSC,11042014,,,2761
C,76,,LBR,11042014,,60.00,4000.00

 

[jdraw]

Try
MTLCost:Format( [Estimated Material Cost],"#,##0.00")
based on this example from techonthenet

Format (210.6, "#,##0.00")
Result: '210.60'

 

[akb]

This did not work.

 

[jdraw]

Error message? What value did you try? What format resulted?

 

[gemma-the-husky]

what are you doing with the text file afterwards, and how are you exporting it?

access always makes its own decisions with regard to exports/imports, and can do things like dropping dps greater than 2

you may have to iterate the query, and write the text file manually


this sort of pseudo code

 while not qry.eof
     process to export line
     next item
 wend

 

[akb]

I did not receive an error message.

I am importing the .txt file into our accounting software.

I export by selecting export data to .txt file.

How do I incorporate the code you mentioned below?

 

[akb]

Also, is there a way to insert a carriage return without the comma?