In a message dated 3/30/2004 12:35:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> You are partly correct when you say UV treats all data as strings. However, > if the UV programmer is careful he/she can get it to do maths processing. > Variables within UVBasic are string unless the result of an expression is > numeric whereby it becomes numeric. > > UV stores numeric data such as dates, time and numbers as a > string value with no decimal point etc. quite deliberately. Trevor partly right. However the MvBASIC statement "A = 1" makes the variable A into a numeric typed datum. I'm not sure you could say this is "the result of an expression" being mathematical, after all Store is both a string and a numeric command. The system converts the loading of a purely numeric argument into a LOADN or STOREN type command on some MV systems, which the loading of a string is a LOAD or LOADS or STORES or something similar to that. Of course the programmer just says A = 1 or A = "DOG" and doesn't have to worry about how the argument is typed in the run engine. "Run Engine" Will -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
