Lewis, Yes, that does work, eliminating the need for the STRING type as well, but as you said, any facts used for matching would also have to be quoted, which is an inconvenience (granted.. perhaps only a minor one). Ryan On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Hart, Lewis wrote: > One way is to put the value in double quotes: > > Jess> (deftemplate numlet (slot numletv (type STRING))) > TRUE > Jess> (assert (numlet (numletv "12345670D"))) > <Fact-0> > Jess> (facts) > f-0 (numlet (numletv "12345670D")) > For a total of 1 facts. > > Fo course your rules will now have to look for "12345670D" (quotes included) > when matching. > > - Lewis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: JESS: asserting a number with D or F at the end (fwd) > > > Hello Again, > > We were wondering of it would be possible to define a slot as a string so > that the integer.parseInt and Double.parseDouble would be skipped for this > datatype (and perhaps others). See below. > > Thanks, > Ryan > > WHAT WOULD BE NICE ------------- > Jess, the Java Expert System Shell > Copyright (C) 1998 E.J. Friedman Hill and the Sandia Corporation > Jess Version 5.2 5/3/2001 > > Jess> (deftemplate numletters > (slot numletter (type STRING)) > ) > TRUE > Jess> (assert (numletters (numletter 12345670D))) > <Fact-0> > Jess> (facts) > f-0 (numletters (numletter 12345670D)) > For a total of 1 facts. > Jess> > > THE WAY JESS REALLY WORKS ------------- > Jess, the Java Expert System Shell > Copyright (C) 1998 E.J. Friedman Hill and the Sandia Corporation > Jess Version 5.2 5/3/2001 > > Jess> (deftemplate numletters > (slot numletter (type STRING)) > ) > TRUE > Jess> (assert (numletters (numletter 12345670D))) > <Fact-0> > Jess> (facts) > f-0 (numletters (numletter 1.234567E7)) > For a total of 1 facts. > Jess> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:58:16 -0700 (PDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: JESS: asserting a number with D or F at the end > > Jess uses Integer.parseInt and Double.parseDouble() to parse numbers; > when it sees a symbol that starts with a number, it tries to use > parseInt, and if that fails, it tries parseDouble, and if that fails, > it just leaves it as a symbol. > > So the syntax is that accepted by these functions; in particular, > trailing D and F, as well as scientific notation XeY, are > accepted. The manual should be revised to reflect this. Thanks. > > I think Ryan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > One of my coworkers found an issue when asserting facts. When asserting a > > numbers with a D or F ending without quotes results in an asserted decimal > > value (see below). My guess is that D are F are Decimal, Floating > > respectively. Anyway, why is this? Are there any other protected > > characters I should know about? > > > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > > > > > EXAMPLE------------------ > > Jess, the Java Expert System Shell > > Copyright (C) 1998 E.J. 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