Re: [Quickfix-developers] Incorrect data format

[Vincent P. <vpr...@ph...>]

On May 28, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Mike Gatny wrote:

> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/ 
> html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>
> Vincent Predoehl wrote:
>> <20080528-21:37:54, FIX.4.4:MP->CLIENT, incoming>
>>   (8=FIX. 
>> 4.49=11735=334=1131749=CLIENT52=20080528-21:37:54.58656=MP45=600458=I 
>> ncorrect data format for value371=54372=8373=610=115)
>
> 373=6 means "Incorrect data format for value"
>
> 372=8 means the MessageType (35) of the offending message was
> ExecutionReport (8)
>
> 45=6004 means that the MsgSeqNum (34) of the offending message was  
> 6004
>
> 371=54 means that the tag with "incorrect data format for value"  
> was the
> Side (54) tag
>
> So, look in your log for an execution report (35=8) with a sequence
> number of 6004 (34=6004).  What was in the Side tag (54) of that  
> message?
>

I traced the problem to an operator== on two FIX::Side instance  
variables.  I have no idea what that would cause that, but everything  
works fine now.

Is there an accessor to the Char class I can use to compare the two  
characters?  I'm having trouble locating it in the code.

-- 
Vincent