DateTimes, LLongs and other 8-byte fields.

[Charles Yeomans]

On Nov 17, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> On 11/17/05 7:53 PM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Fair enough, especially since I expect there's some simple way to do
>>>> this
>>>> that's not apparent to me.  Possibly by mapping a Memory block 
>>>> pointer
>>>> to
>>>> the VField or something.  I'll run this by Thomas Templeton or the 
>>>> NUG
>>>> list
>>>> on RB.  Or I see Charles Yeoman is on this list.  He'll likely know.
>>>
>>> It's not hard to get the four-byte pieces. Take the string returned
>>> from a LLong or ULLong field, stick it into an eight-byte 
>>> MemoryBlock,
>>> then read out the pieces using MemoryBlock.Long.
>>
>> Ah!  So the string returned by GetString is a binary string. Doh!  Of 
>> course
>> it is. I was thinking it would be a printable numeric for some stupid
>> reason. That's the problem with having at least 5 overloaded uses for 
>> the
>> term "string".
>
> Wait guys.
>
>     longFld.GetString()
>
> Return normal string. Not binary

Could you be more precise?  What, exactly, does LLongFld.GetString 
return?
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Charles Yeomans