Re: FieldByName erroroneous result

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From: Arnie Mauer
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:33

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"Mike Knoblock" <mjk111@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> I don't know if anyone has run  into this, but I encountered a problem
when
> retrieving a value of type double from a dataset using FieldByName as
> follows:
>
> TADOQuery * AQ;
> ...
> double addr;
> ....
> addr = AQ->Fields->Fields[0]->AsFloat;
> // returned 125013010 - the correct value
> addr = AQ->Fields->FieldByName("office_address")->AsFloat;     // returned
> 125013008 !!!
>
> Casting the FieldByName call to return a double did not change the result;
> in fact the BCB help says this function only returns a double.  Am I not
> using this function correctly, or is it a known problem?
>
> Using BCB5 with ADO Express.
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
>
>
I tried this against a DB2 DB using your number and get the same result both
ways.  I'm also using BCB5 with ADO Express.
- Arnie

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