Assignments to uncast dummy fields (was Re: simple

[Larry S. Weaver Jr.]

Just playing around with Ken's little test routine, not only can you 
force filepro to treat a text string ("000019foo") as a number by 
performing a math function on it:

ie xx="000019foo"+"0" gives "19" with field edit (25,f)

You can also force it to treat a number as a text string by doing a text 
function on it.

yy(2,.0)="15"

xx=yy{"" gives "15" with a field edit of (2,*)

I then tried to trip it up by doing both with unexpected results:

yy(2,.0)="15"
xx=yy{""+"3" gave "153" with a field edit of (3,*)
xx=yy{""-"3" gave "15-3" with a field edit of (4,*)
xx=yy{""*"3" gave "150" with a field edit of (3,*), as did xx=yy{""/"3"

(all with filepro 5.0.09)

Not that any of those have any real use, but it just goes to show there 
are some mysterious things going on under the hood.

Larry, Jr.

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