>Hi everyone,
>
>Is there a function to determine size of variable? Today I had a numeric overflow Error, so I was thinking, is it possible to find a size (or number of digits) in Numeric variable.
>I finally got it working in this code:
>
>
>if !empty(pnSize) and vartype(pnSize)='N'
> lnMax=val(replicate('9',pnSize-1))
> if lnLotSizeSqFt>lnMax
> lnLotSizeSqFt=lnMax
> endif
>endif
>there pnSize is a parameter (actual field size). But how can I determine size of variable?
Something like this, if you don't want the decimal portion?
len(alltrim(str(int(nValue))))
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