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What's up with the PADL?
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11/10/2005 01:38:27
 
 
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11/10/2005 01:32:39
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01057840
Message ID:
01057849
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>>Hmm, interesting. I didn't know you could use PADL() with a general expression, I thought it had to be a string.
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>tnNumero comes from an object property This.nNumero which is initialize from a cursor field which comes from a table on an integer field. So, if I select a field in a cursor that is an integer, store that in a property, I should end up with the proper value.

Doesn't matter. The minute you have PARAMETER/LPARAMETER tnNumero, you've done an implicit conversion to numeric, not integer. In fact, it probably happened on storing it to the object property - I don't believe object properties can be integers, either.

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>IAC, as I said, I have this at various other levels as well. I have experienced this with VFP 9. Basically, I read a HTML form value with WWC object, such as Request.Form, and sometimes, I end up as well with that behavior when getting the VAL() value of what Request.Form returns. It simply just doesn't make any sense. I have started to put INT() mostly everywhere I am using PADL() now.

Like I said, you'll need to include ROUND() for it to be bulletproof. The joys of decimal/floating point approximations of integers ...
Regards. Al

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