That is most likely due to being handled as a memo field.
It's pretty weird you would store an integer in a memo....
But, I could look into it and see if I could accommodate.

Jason

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> Behalf Of Hans
> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 7:54 AM
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> Subject: [IBO] small IBO problem
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> Small IBO problem
>
> TEMP VARCHAR(1000) filled with 123
>
> FiledByName('Temp').AsInteger -> Raises an exception
>
> TEMP VARCHAR(10) filled with 123 works fine
>
> The long TEMP works in BDE and IBX
>