Re: [DataVision-users] Working with Ruby

[William C. <bc...@cb...>]

$whatever.to_f does it. (the value may have fractional values). The 
value is always numeric, as the fields being added are defined as 
"DECIMAL not NULL" in the database.

I was using sprintf to apply formatting, but using the display format 
attributes is much better solution.

Thanks for the help.


Jim Menard wrote:
> William,
> 
> 
>>Sorry, these are not "real" field names; symbolic place holders with
>>more meaning than the real field names would have to anyone not working
>>in the industry. The real filed names have no - or _ characters.
> 
> 
> Then could the value be non-numeric? Try forcing the value of the
> variable to be an integer
> 
>   sprintf("%d", $whatever.to_i)
> 
> or try just
> 
>   $whatever.to_i
> 
> if you don't need any special formatting (except for what the
> DataVision field's format string gives you).
> 
> Jim
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