Of course! Doh! I am going back into my cave. :-)
Richard. > From: Jim Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:32:17 -0700 (PDT) > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] MUMPS features > > richard Davis wrote: >> I believe that within the context of a global subscript, the values are all >> strings. No distinction is made between what one may call 'numbers' and all >> other concatenations of characters. Only as the subscript values are >> interpreted outside of the context of an global subscript value do >> characters become 'numbers'. Is this not so? > > Not so. The recognition of canonic numbers is integral to the collation order > of > subscripts. Canonic numbers, such as 1, 9999999, 1.0005, -5, collate in > numeric order and > precede all other subscript values at the same level, including strings > composed entirely > of digits, such as "0000" or "1.000". > ... .... ..... ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
