sybperl-l Archive

From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: Re: question on rounding up
Date: Oct 15 1999 5:20PM

Michael Peppler writes:
 > Konrad Zak writes:
 >  > hello.
 >  > 	with following lines i'm trying to get identyfier value for known to me
 >  > NAZWA_1 value:
 >  > 
 >  > $SQL_helpquery = "select ORGANIZACJA_ID from ORGANIZACJA where NAZWA_1 =
 >  > \"$hashRef{'NAZWA_1'}[0]\"";
 >  > $ref = $d->ct_sql($SQL_helpquery);
 >  > 	
 >  > and ... perl round ORGANIZACJA_ID=100000...000015 up to 100000...00002,
 >  > this is "print @$ref->[0][0];" output:
 >  > 
 >  > 1.00000000000002e+15
 >  > 
 >  > how can I avoid this? I'll appreciate every advice. best regards.
 > 
 > If you have the latest sybperl I think you can say $dbh->{UseChar} = 1 
 > to tell sybperl to convert very large numeric values to strings
 > instead of numbers. The problem you are seeing is that your very large 
 > numeric value doesn't fit in a 32 bit int.

Alternatively: select convert(varchar, ORGANIZACJA_ID) should also
solve the problem.

Michael
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