Re: Comma and full point decimal problems between languages

"Granty" <grant@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A real number is read from a database. This is then used in a
calculation. On Spanish based machines I get a floating point error. I
am assuming that this is to do with the locale ...

If the number is a number in the database, and is read from the database
as a number, then this cannot happen. For a format error to occur,
strings must come into play somewhere. You want to eliminate that.
Numbers are numbers.

What database are you using?

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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