> -----Original Message----- > From: John Stanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 7:37 PM > To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org > Subject: Re: [sqlite] How can I get the type of a column? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > sqlite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Eric Scouten wrote: > >> > >>>SQLite derives that by parsing the string that you've > already found. > >> > >>I found the method in section 2.1 of this page: > >>http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html > >> > >> > >> > I think it does store that in some internal fashion, so > >> > it's not *re-parsing* it constantly, but that is not > >> > available through the API. > >> > > >> > >>Pity. I guess I'll have to parse it myself... > >> > > > > > > I continue to be bewildered by programmers' > > fixation on datatypes. This has been a constant > > theme for 6 years now. And in all that time, I > > have never been able to figure out why so many > > people think they need to know the "type" of a > > "column". > > > > The best theory I have is that people who have > > always driven a stick shift must have difficulty > > driving a car with an automatic transmission. > > > > -- > > D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Only six years? How many years did it take for programmers > and others > to get past the concept of 80 column Hollerith cards, and how many > haven't yet made it? > JS
Well in 196x we forward thinkers in the Polaris Navy used 90 column Univac punch cards (With ROUND holes) for our target cards. We always fancied the one with D.C. as the terminal destination :-) Fred
