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- PRODUCT : Paradox NUMBER : 788
- VERSION : 3.5
- OS : DOS
- DATE : August 26, 1991 PAGE : 1/2
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- TITLE : Converting Numeric Data from Earlier Paradox Versions
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- One of the major improvements of Paradox 3.5 over earlier
- versions of Paradox is the use of the Turbo C math library. This
- library provides greater precision and compatibility across other
- products than the one used in earlier versions of Paradox.
- However, this will cause some numeric and dollar values that were
- entered using an earlier version of Paradox to be stored
- differently in Paradox 3.5.
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- Some symptoms of a number being stored or rounded differently are
- LOCATE and ZOOM commands returning the message "No Match Found".
- Other symptoms are Find or multi-table queries that link on a
- numeric field that do not produce expected results. Data entered
- via keyboard into Paradox 3.5 should not exhibit these symptoms
- (Because of the way computers store numbers, there will always be
- occasional roundoff errors when manipulating numbers with many
- decimal digits of precision. Unfortunately, other methods of
- representing numbers also have disadvantages.)
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- You can round your numeric data in a uniform manner with one or
- both of the following methods. Both involve the translation of
- the existing data to an alphanumeric value and the retranslation
- back into a Paradox Numeric field.
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- The first method is to export the existing Paradox file to an
- ASCII file, then import the data back into Paradox 3.5. This
- method is appropriate if there are many tables or a table with
- many fields to correct. (See Paradox 3.5 Readme File for
- complete instructions.)
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- The second method is to run a short PAL script to correct the
- numeric values in the table. This method is more appropriate if
- there are few tables with few fields to correct. Use the script
- editor to write the PAL script for the second method.
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- From the Paradox Main menu choose {Scripts} {Editor} {Write} and
- provide a new script name. This script will correct Numeric
- field values through the use of the NUMVAL and STRVAL functions.
- Combined they perform similar steps as a complete export to ASCII
- and import from ASCII. In the script Replace TableName with the
- name of the table and replace FieldName with the name of the
- field to be corrected. The Field to be corrected MUST be a
- Numeric field.
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- PRODUCT : Paradox NUMBER : 788
- VERSION : 3.5
- OS : DOS
- DATE : August 26, 1991 PAGE : 2/2
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- TITLE : Converting Numeric Data from Earlier Paradox Versions
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- ; Script Begins
- COEDIT "TableName"
- SCAN
- IF NOT ISBLANK([FieldName])
- THEN [FieldName] = NUMVAL(STRVAL([FieldName]))
- ENDIF
- ENDSCAN
- DO_IT!
- ; Script Ends
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- It is possible to convert more than one field at a time. Simply
- insert additional lines inside the SCAN and ENDSCAN commands for
- each field that need conversion. So a script that converted two
- fields would have lines that look like this (where both fields
- MUST be Numeric):
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- ; Script Begins
- IF NOT ISBLANK([FieldName]) THEN
- [FieldName] = NUMVAL(STRVAL([FieldName]))
- ENDIF
- IF NOT ISBLANK([FieldName 2]) THEN
- [FieldName 2] = NUMVAL(STRVAL([FieldName 2]))
- ENDIF
- ; Script Ends
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- Press <F2> to save this script. To run the script choose
- {Scripts} {Play} from the main menu and select your script.
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- After performing either of these two methods, the values in will
- appear on screen to be unchanged, yet a ZOOM, LOCATE, FIND query,
- or linking query operation will now produce the desired results.
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