>> require that you pass the amount in whole cents

so you're saying that the "datatype" of that field wasn't string or number or 
even decimal

 - but "cents" ?

where? was this "legacy" stuff or was there a reason?





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> To avoid dealing with fractional cents, many transactional 
> applications require that you pass the amount in whole cents. 
> So if the amount is $45.55, you would just pass the string 
> 4555 - anything else but numerical digits would be rejected. 
> The field validation would reject a decimal point, most likely.
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> Regards: Ayudh
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> Steve Onnis wrote:
> > if that was the case, how would you pass a cents values?
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