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Matt Baker
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e notation requires floating point arithmetic which allows for representing very large or very small numbers. OpenEdge uses fixed point decimal. The language doesn't support floats (or doubles). So you're stuck parsing it as you have done, or using .NET to parse it for you. As long as the number isn't too big, you can stuff it into a decimal after parsing it. Watch out for the number of decimal places when dealing with really small numbers.
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