Subject RE: [IBO] TIB_Export
Author Jason Wharton
The problem is, it is stored as a floating point and DBF doesn't have the
notion of such. I need to enhance the IB_Export to take care of the
conversion better it appears.

Perhaps you could try casting it as a string as a workaround?

Jason Wharton
www.ibobjects.com


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> From: regishansen [mailto:regishansen@...]
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 7:21 AM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBO] TIB_Export
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> I´m using TIB_Export to transport data from Firebird 1.5 to DBF´s.
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> Recently I have a problem in order to use field types Numeric(15,2).
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> When the TIB_Export creates the table, data in these fielsd are
> "rounded" like "5,45" -> "5". I use the DataBase Desktop from Delphi
> to see the info structure from the generated table and the current
> field Numeric(15,2) from Firebird is converted in numeric(7,0) in DBF
> table.
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> Someone help me in order to convert the field with decimal´s places
> correctly.