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Re: Found the bug
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:03:59 GMT
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mookie@innocent.com+ihatespam+
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Ok.. mines set to a dot... and it didn't work, I've never changed any of
those settings on my system...
any other clues?
Benoit wrote:
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> Hi,
> I found a very subtle and sneaky bug in ldao. This bug occurs only if in
> the regional setting control panel applet the decimal separator is set to
> something else than a dot '.' this occurs in certain countries like in
> France where the decimal separator is a coma ','. The problem is that some
> functions used in VB to parse a string into a floating point number take
> this parameter into account and others don't. In fact the default type
> casting done by VB will take this into account as well as the CSng CDbl
> functions while the val function does not! So this explains why I was the
> only one who wasn't able to open the editor or modeler, what happened was
> that when ldao tried to parse the string which contained the view setting it
> could not do so. I've e-mailed Steve with the corrected file.
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| Hi, I found a very subtle and sneaky bug in ldao. This bug occurs only if in the regional setting control panel applet the decimal separator is set to something else than a dot '.' this occurs in certain countries like in France where the decimal (...) (28 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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