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Post by softdevo@tiscali.it »

Taking a cue from what we said in the previous discussion on numbers "If someone can explain it to me?" I did a test.
I don't think it is possible in an application to replace the numerical initialization from System.Double to System.Decimal because the behavior is not identical, see image and a Xide test application.
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Post by Chris »

Hi Danilo,

Yeah, when you print a Decimal, you need to specify how many decimal places to include, because it does not contain the extra formatting information that FLOAT has:

LOCAL d AS Decimal
d := 123.1234567
? d:ToString("N2")
d := 12
? d:ToString("N2")
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Post by Karl-Heinz »

Hi Chris,

i think there must have been a problem in the origin 2.0.0.9 build. When i switch back to that version i can confirm what Danilo is seeing. But with the newer dlls i have, the decimal and double output is as expected "8,70" and "870,00". When i change the decimal setting with the origin build to e.g. setdecimal (3), the decimals output is still "9" and "870" , while the doubles are "8,700" and "870,000". With the newer Dlls the output is in both cases "8,700" and "870,000".

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Post by Chris »

Ah, right, thanks Karl-Heinz, Robert made some changes in this area indeed. Can't send new runtime dlls now, as they are in an intermediate state, but we will soon have a new build ready, Danilo please test again when it gets released.
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OK thanks
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Post by wriedmann »

Ciao Danilo,

if you replace the NTrim() function call with the ToString() method call, as follows:

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local cVal as string
local nVal,nVal1 as System.Decimal

cVal := "8.70"

nVal := Val(cVal)
self:oLabel2:Text := nVal:ToString()  // NTrim(nVal)
nVal1 := (nVal*100)
self:oLabel1:Text := nVal1:ToString()	// NTrim(nVal1)
it works as expected:
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Post by softdevo@tiscali.it »

Yes thank you, but I would have to change thousands of lines of code with the risk of making mistakes that come out only at runtime.
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Post by wriedmann »

Hi Danilo,
of course, if you have it used that much!
But when you change all these places to the system.decimal datatype, you have to check it nevertheless, because things that worked previously could give unexpected results (more precise).
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