RE: Character to Numeric

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara warned:

>> Brad, your subprocedure uses floating point to calculate the result
>> (the result of 10 ** DecPos is a floating point value).  This 
>> means that
>> every once in a while you will return a result that isn't the same
>> as the input value.

Brad Stone replied:

>I haven't had any problems.  This is basically the IBM one.  
>The original IBM one produced wrong results 99% of the 
>time (ie 1.9999999 instead of 2).  So I just added a half 
>adjust and so far it's worked flawlessly for 3 years
>or more.

It fails for large input values - try '12,345,678.12'
This is not outside the realm of realistic numbers being imported from a
spreadsheet program.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
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 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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