Anyone got a date math routine?

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Dec 5 09:13:04 PST 2007


Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:17:33 -0500):

> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:32:45AM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
[...]
>> There is no "round function" because none is needed.  It's done for you
>> automatically.  For example, put "1.666" into a .2 field and you get "1.67".
>> Store "125"/"100" into a .0 field and you get "1".
>
> This *seems* like a Really Neat Idea... but in my case here, what it
> means is that I need to know the length of the integer part of the
> result of dividing by 57 million *before I declare the length of the
> target field*.
>
> I'm not sure I can do that.

I'm not sure what problem you are envisioning.  Can you give a specific
example of what problem you see?

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