Will, Try this yourself.
>CT XP TST.WILL TST.WILL 0001 DEBUG 0002 A = 1 0003 A = "1" 0004 STOP >RUN XP TST.WOL TST.WOL: 2: A = 1 :: S TST.WOL: 3: A = "1" :: A/ INTEGER: 1 :: S TST.WOL: 4: STOP :: A/ STRING: T r L=1 `1' :: Universe 10.0.8 Cheers, Stewart -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 17:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Data typing in MV Basic In a message dated 3/30/2004 11:33:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A = 1 is held as an integer > A = "1" is held as a string > A = "1" + 0 is held as an integer > > Cheers, > Stewart Sorry stewart I don't believe that's the case. And btw to the posted that suggested NUM(A), NUM(A) would return TRUE for A = 1 and also for A = "1" since NUM forces a numeric string into a numeric datum anyway So that's not a good way to test it Will -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users