DateTimes, LLongs and other 8-byte fields.

[Ed Kleban]

On 11/18/05 2:29 PM, "Charles Yeomans" <yeomans at desuetude.com> wrote:
  
>> Sorry, this is question to REAL :-)
>> 
>>     right now V4RB do NOT support int64.
>>     you can assign value only via Strings.
>> 
>> As only REAL will implement int64, we will add .Value for LLong
> 
> No, this is question to Paradigma.  What does fld.GetString return when
> fld is a LLong?  Does it return an eight-byte string containing the
> integer data?  Does it return a string containing the representation of
> the string in arabic numerals?
> 
> I believe this is at least the third time I have asked the same
> question.  If you just don't want to answer, please so inform me.
>  

Ruslan answered this question on the list here yesterday in terms I
understood quite well:



On 11/17/05 5:12 PM, "Ruslan Zasukhin" <sunshine at public.kherson.ua> wrote:
   
> 
> But fld.GetString() returns normal string which you can show in edit field
> for example.
> 
>> Consider
>> for example the difference between the definitions in the language reference
>> for len(aString) and lenB(aString).
>> 
>> The only way to resolve this is to answer the question Charles asks below.
> 
>> You have to give us a concrete example using quoted string characters "Like
>> this" and Hex like this:  0h12F34285    -- without that there's just know
>> way to have a good clue of either what longFld.GetSting() does or what you
>> mean to say -- short of looking at one of your fine code examples which is
>> another way of accomplishing the same thing.
> 
> In terms of C++
> 
>     GetString for integer executes   itoa()
>