DateTimes, LLongs and other 8-byte fields.

[Charles Yeomans]

On Nov 17, 2005, at 2:28 AM, Ed Kleban wrote:

>
> I see that there are casting functions for the VCursor class, which I
> understand are for moving values between a Cursor and a Table's 
> Vfields.
>
> But what I don't find are any functions to assist with getting 8-byte 
> values
> into and out of RB variables.
>
> For example, How do I get the high vs low four bytes of an LLong or 
> ULong
> field?  The only mechanism I see for this is GetString an SetString, 
> which
> is a bit perplexing.  I use Valentina to do a super fast lookup of my 
> data
> to get it into a current Table record or into a Cursor, but then I 
> have to
> convert a binary value to a string which I then have to chop up with 
> string
> operations and convert back to a binary value to use?
>
> Yuck! ... or am I missing something here?

I think you're working too hard.  Valentina is extremely fast, so 
perhaps you might first write simpler code and Valentina supply the 
speed.

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Charles Yeomans