Re: DDS screen: how to ensure field keyed is numeric for alpha-descri bed field

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: Richard Jackson <richardjackson@richardjackson.net>
> Imagine divides by 10 in a loop to move the decimal place to the left and
> multiplies by 10 in a loop to move it to the right.

Ouch!


>There is also instruction "copy external form to numeric" to
> convert character values to numeric values that could have been used

Now that sounds interesting. What are the details? Could we have a simple,
fast MI program that does what C2N, atof, atoi, etc. do?


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