If you are using 4.0.2 and above you can use cast.
mysql> select var1,cast(var2 as unsigned) from test1;
+------+------------------------+
| var1 | cast(var2 as unsigned) |
+------+------------------------+
| 1 | 562949953421312 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 32768 |
+------+------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Note I add a row with "1" and another with "16".
Bernard
On Friday 06 February 2004 16:22, Greg Vines wrote:
> With sets if you select the set, you get a comma delimited list, but if
> you add zero, you get the number value of the entire set (which is what
> I want). The response is not always in exponential notation - just when
> a high order bit is set.
>
> This seems to be a problem with the output formatting. Do you know if
> there is a way to set the number of characters in a numeric response?
>
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:54, Michael Stassen wrote:
> > Why are you adding 0? Try this:
> >
> > SELECT var1, var2 FROM test1;
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > Greg Vines wrote:
> > > I'm trying to select all the fields from a set but when the number is
> > > large, it is returned in exponential notation. Is there a way to keep
> > > the returned number an integer?
> > >
> > > Example:
> > > create simple table:
> > >
> > > create table test1(
> > > var1 int,
> > > var2 set("1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10",
> > > "11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20",
> > > "21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30",
> > > "31","32","33","34","35","36","37","38","39","30",
> > > "41","42","43","44","45","46","47","48","49","40",
> > > "51","52","53","54","55","56","57","58","59","60")
> > > );
> > >
> > > Add a row:
> > >
> > > insert into test1 values (1, "40");
> > >
> > > Then select & oops:
> > >
> > > select var1,var2+0 from test1;
> > >
> > > +------+---------------------+
> > >
> > > | var1 | var2+0 |
> > >
> > > +------+---------------------+
> > >
> > > | 1 | 5.6294995342131e+14 |
> > >
> > > +------+---------------------+
> > >
> > >
> > > How can I get this output as an integer?
> > >
> > > I've tried both MySQL 3.23 and 4.0.17 with the same result. I'm
> > > running on linux (RHL 8.0)
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > - Greg
>
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