""jdschlough"" <jdschlough@...> wrote in message
news:a7qidk+vdul@......

>
> this is the string conversion problem i knew was there, but hadn't
> gotten far enough to discover. firebird doesn't know what to do with
> a string where it is expecting a numeric...currently RingTFM...

If you pass a thing that can't be converted to number, what do you expect, a
random value selected behind scenes?
If the string represents a number instead, then the conversion will happen
on most cases.

C.
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