Hello,
I've an table in an interbase database containing a field named Price of
type numeric(9,2).
my assignment

table.FieldByName('Price').AsFloat = 1.75;

doesn't work (the field contains the value 2 afterwards).

I'm using delphi3.

How can i solve this problem?

Peter Smink
Osirion B.V.
E-mail: psm...@osirion.nl

Apart from using anything other than the BDE to access IB databases... =:-)
IBX, IBOjects and FIB all handle floating point values a lot better than the
BDE.

Firstly, check that the actual value *stored* is 2 and not the value that is
being displayed is 2 and the underlying value is really 1.75. (display based
rounding).

Failing this, have you tried using the .AsCurrency property? Using this can
reduce the rounding problems when passing floating point values across to a
database using the BDE. If the BDE is still being obstinate in that it
continues to round the value, try assigning the field using .AsString - for
some reason this actually cures a lot of BDE based rounding problems. eg.
table.FieldByName( 'Price' ).AsString := Format( '%.2f', [MyFloatVar] ).

Hope this helps

Nick

Thanks for your response,

I've checked your remarks:

1) IBX, IBOjects and FIB all handle floating point values a lot better than
the  BDE.
    I will take a look at this.
2)The value shown in the interbase Database explorer are not rounded. So it
doesn't seem to be a display problem
3) Besides this price format I also have type numeric(6,3) which can not be
presented by a currency type.
4) using table.FieldByName( 'Price' ).AsString := Format( '%.2f',
[MyFloatVar] ) result in an error message that e.g. 1,45 is not a valid
    integer value.

Peter

In addition to Nicks suggestions you might want check the Enable BCD param for
the alias.  Numeric(9,2) will map to a scaled integer (a BCD) and your TField
needs to get mapped to a BCD for that column so that setting should be true.

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In this case you appear to be caught up in regionalisation issues - where
your regional settings use the comma as a decimal separator but the BDE
(maybe IB but probably the BDE) is expecting a dot / decimal point / period
(or whatever you call it - varies) as the decimal separator. If you want to
change this then you can either changed your control panel settings (in
which case other programs may fail) or you could change the decimal
seperator variable  within Delphi.

Nick