RE: MI Problem with data types

[Jacques Paris]

You made me discover an "interesting" feature with your query. It seems that the truncation of decimals occurs with the VAL() function. It is what I did

 

dim a a string

a=123.45678

print val(a)              result>>> 123.457

print format$(val(a),"#.#####")    result>>>123.457

dim i as float

i=123.45678

print format$(i,"#.#####")   result >>> 123.45678

Any confirmation from the higher ones?

Jacques Paris

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Giorgio Porta
Sent: November 26, 1999 3:51 AM
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Subject: MI Problem with data types

Hi to All,

I would like to know, if anyone has ever used the decimal data type (for example Dim num As Decimal...)

When trying to recover the number corresponding to the string in an edit text, using the Val() function i have this problem:

 

Ex:      num = 12345.6789       Val (num) = 12345.68

 

How can i recover the effective num without loosing the decimals ?

 

Thank you in advanced to all

 

 

Giorgio Porta

 

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