[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Numeric-format for STRING(DECIMAL)

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jquerijero's answer disappeard, but I got it by mail: [quote user="jquerijero"] I think he is receiving an American XML and processing it on a European computer in which a string representation of a decimal value has to be converted to the proper region first before it can be stored correctly. [/quote] Off course for regular use a decimal value is stored in a decimal variable/decimal field, that's not the discussion/point here, that is obvious. By storing I meant in a character variable. That variable could contain more than just the single decimal. This variable could be stored in a db character field, containing arbitrary data, or to a file, or sent through a socket...

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