Re: How To Get Numetic Value!!! using C ???

Mike Mascari wrote:

> Oleg Shalnev wrote:
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>> Hi All!
>

Thanks a lot!

Oleg Shalnev

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>> I want to GetValue numeric type from binary cursor, but I have no
>> ideas how to do it.
>> Now I am using
>>
>> double test;
>> test=atof((char*)GetValue(0,0));
>> in C function and doing
>> to_char(my_numeric_field, '9999999999999D99')
>> in database selection.
>> May be there is another normal way to do it.
>>
>> Thanks a lot!!!
>> Oleg Shalnev
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> First, I'd not use binary cursors because:
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> 1) I have no clue regarding the binary representation of Numeric
> 2) Byte-ordering can differ if the client and server platforms are
> different
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> I'm surprised the above works at all with a binary cursor. Assuming a
> text cursor, I think you need some additional C/C++ library which has:
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> 1) support for ASCII to fixed-point conversion
> 2) support for fixed-point to ASCII conversion
> 3) fixed-point operations
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> My clients are CORBA-based C++, which has a "Fixed" class supplied by
> the vendor to handle the above. Java, likewise, has BigDecimal. You
> might want to do a search for "arbitrary precision library C". A quick
> search included this:
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> http://www.swox.com/gmp/#DOC
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> which appears to do what you need to do on the client, and a whole lot
> more...
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> How that helps,
>
> Mike Mascari
> mascarm@mascari.com
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