I don't understand. What is this numeric variable. I got the reply '42'.
To understand that response, you'll have to read The Hitchhiker's Guide To
The Galaxy. Any attempt to explain it outside of that context would be
futile.
Tim Snyder
IBM Data Management Solutions
Consulting I/T
In a message dated 2/2/2004 9:06:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's been affirmed here and other places that MV considers everything as a text
variable (keep file handles and arrays out of this discussion) and its numerological
properties come
into play only when
I'm all ears. What is this numeric variable.
Thanks.
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Subject: Re: The result of VARIABLE[1,3] + 0
In a message dated 2/2/2004 9:06:43 AM Eastern Standard
There is a numeric type or datum as some people call it.
Since we are talking MV here and not specifically one vendor.
If you look at the opcode of an ADDS machine there is a code for LOADS (string) and
also a seperate one for LOADN (numeric). This implies that there are in fact two
seperate
I don't understand. What is this numeric variable. I got the reply '42'.
thanks.
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From: gerry simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: The result of VARIABLE[1,3] + 0
42
Marco,
Sounds like a bug inwhatever pointrelease you
are running.
What happens if you say B = A[1,3] * 1
?
I would be very worried about a runtime errorfrom
'123' + '456'. Not good.
Brian Leach
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ManyevereSent: 02
I tried this on a MCD spirit, D3 W2kand
AP-Pro as well and got the '1' and 567 that we're all getting.
It's been affirmed here and other places that MV
considers everything as a text variable (keep file handles and arrays out of
this discussion) and its numerological properties come into
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of
Mark Johnson...
This brings up another aspect of the text/string
situation: Consider this
A="00"[1,3] ;*zeros for both
lines
B="00"[1,2]
PRINT (A=B)
and you would expect
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Hi
Marco,
Universe doesn't use the + for concatenation, it uses the : (colon)
symbol eg. '123':'456' will result in '123456'.
Both
these examples come up with the expected results (1 and 579) on version 10.0.2
(UV personal edition, Linux) and also on 10.0.8 on
Tru64.
are
you looking for a number.. because there may be something else. check for
num... then remove the third place ie
if
num[1,3] then print else error
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