[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] A Built-in Function Or Method Is Required To...

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We encountered a problem when obtaining a JSON array containing elements of the Decimal type that have a value in exponential form - today there no built-in functionality available in ABL to convert exponential notation to decimal value. When we try to use the GetDecimal () method, we see: "Cannot transform JSON number value to ABL decimal value, JSON value has an exponent." From the response of technical support: "As we are a database / business language, floating point is seldom used in that world. ". But this is not so. In this case, the OpenEdge application is a banking application that works with stock and currency markets, so an exponential form is often used.

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