Re: [Exist-open] scientific notation

[Nick S. <nsi...@nu...>]

Nevermind. User error.

On 1/25/21 8:39 PM, Nick Sincaglia wrote:
> I am calling a web service which returns a number in scientific 
> notation. I need to convert it to an integer. This should be simple 
> but I am not able to find a solution.
>
> When I run the below code in eXide, I get the correct answer of 46622388.
> xquery version "3.1";
>
> let $x := <value>4.6622388E7</value>
> let $y := $x/text()
> return
>     xs:long(number($y))
>
> However, when I use the same conversion in my code, I get an error 
> complaining about xs:double('NaN') to xs:long
>
> Why is number($y) returning 'NaN'. What do I need to do to get convert 
> scientific notation to an integer?
>
> Nick
>
>
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