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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows 2000 SP4
Network:
Windows 2000 Pro
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01236596
Message ID:
01236599
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Mark,

You are creating to fields that are N(4,2) which apparently is not big enough to accommodate your results, try using more zeroes like
sele *, 0000000.00 as field1, 0000000.00 as field2 where.. into cursor temp1 readwrite
>hi all,
>I have a problem updating a writable cursor. basically it goes like this
>
>sele *, 0.00 as field1, 0.00 as field2 where.. into cursor temp1 readwrite
>do while not eof
>
>    repl field1 with numeric_value * 2.5
>    repl field2 with field1 * other_numeric_field
>
>    loop
>enddo
>
>i get a numeric overflow error on these two lines sometimes but i have no idea why, any ideas?
>~M
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