select floor('5') <= floor('6');
TK
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> Fra: Daniel James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sendt: 30. oktober 2001 04:32
> Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Emne: Comparing strings as ints
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> After staring blankly at the mysql manual for a.... long time, I
> thought it
> might be time to ask the list...
>
> I have a table setup with a varchar(20) column, I am using this column to
> store a price, the reason I chose varchar(20) is because the prices I am
> dealing with are fairly large and I wanted to guarintee 20 digits. There
> are no characters like '$' or '.' stored in this column. Now, If I select
> and where this column <= somevalue everything is good and works..
> but! when
> I use a string as somevalue it all goes nuts, because mysql will convert
> the string to an integer if the other value in the comparison is an
> integer, but if both are strings it's a slight problem. The reason I want
> to compare it with a string is the data is from a web based form and
> contains an escaped string. I don't want anyone playing with the database.
>
> Here is the problem another way...
>
> select '5' <= '6';
> => 1
> select '5' <= '4';
> => 0
> select '5' <= '40';
> => 0 <- eegad.....
>
> does anyone know how I can get around this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>
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