is firstPeriodDate as TDateTime or String ?
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From: Allan, Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:32 AM
Subject: [DUG]: Client Data Set error
> I am confused. I have some code to insert a record into a TClientDataSet.
It looks like this:
>
> 1. CDSRegGroup.Insert;
> 2. CDSRegGroup.FieldByName('reg_group').AsString := regGroup;
> 3. CDSRegGroup.FieldByName('full_desc').AsString := fullDesc;
> 4. CDSRegGroup.FieldByName('first_period_date').AsDateTime :=
firstPeriodDate;
> 5. CDSRegGroup.Post;
>
> The client data set has three fields all listed above, and incidently
showing their data types. They are all data fields. The client data set is
the master in a master/detail relationship.
>
> There is also an index on reg_group which has the ixPrimary option set.
Another index is on first_period_date, which is used to sort them.
>
> The string regGroup is: '2003ACYR'.
>
> On the first insert to a blank data set (possibly would get on all
inserts) I get the following error on line 2:
>
> EVariantTypeCastError - Could not convert variant of type (string) into
type (Date).
>
> No-one here knows what the heck causes this or how to fix it. I am
stumped. Could someone please help me?
>
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