>Hi Gang...
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>A colleague here asked me why he was getting a Numeric Overflow on a field of a table. The field was 9,0 9 wide with no decimals.
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>It was displayed as ****** in the field.
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>Don't know what the value was going on.
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>The code that put the value there was...
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>myvalue = val(right(mystring,6))
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>replace myfield with myvalue
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>I tried different combinations for mystring, but could not overflow it...... any ideas what made it overflow on that certain value? Or what the value might be?
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>Thanks!

Something like 9E18, may be?