On Saturday 05 September 2009 11:41:42 Doriano Blengino wrote: > Benoît Minisini ha scritto: > >> Hi gambas users. > >> It seems to me that it is impossible to enter a number in > >> scientific notation in a value box. It does not accept > >> "E" or "D" letters which are used to separate exponent. > >> So value as 1.0E-1 is illegal. If it is so, it must be treated as a bug > >> ! Or am I doing something wrongly ? > >> Alex > > > > I don't know if "Number" should accept scientic notation, or if I should > > better create a new ValueBox Type (for example "Scientific"). > > > > And where did you see that "D" is an exponent separator? > > I too vaguely remember the "D" letter, probably it means "double > precision" in C or Fortran.
Exactly . This was an old fortran convention that the number should be treated as "double precision". In modern Fortran there are other means to tell that. Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
