Kees,
The conversion is automatic :
Robert

Guys,
This problem is caused by the fact that certain floating point numbers cannot exactly be represented.
If you want 100% accuracy you should either calculate with integers (in cents) or with the Decimal type.

Robert

Den,
The Asc() function translates the characters from unicode to ansi at runtime.
What is the value of
RuntimeState.DosCodePage
RuntimeState.WinCodePage

Robert

Guys, The problem is different from what you would expect: there is a SetCollation() function in both XSharp.Core and XSharp.XPP I am not sure why we did this, but SetCollation() inside XSharp.XPP expects a numeric parameter from Collat.ch This activates one of the Xbase++ collation tables. In this ...

Den,
The sort order is controlled by the russian collation. I would have to check what the contents of that collation is.
We extracted that sort order from the clipper / vo collation table

Robert

I was wondering if I should change the RDD system to allow for bigger files.
These numbers have convinced me that I should do that.

Robert

For others reading this: this fix is already included in 2.19.

Robert

Dick, I have analyzed the DBF file and found the problem: The RDD has a problem in the calculation of the # of records in the file (during the opening of the DBF), which causes an exception during the opening of the file. I'll send you an updated DLL by mail. This error by the way, only occurs with ...

Dick,
Please use Wetransfer or something like that and send us the link to the actual data that shows the problem.

Robert

Kees,

Kees Bouw wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:16 am Found it, it is probably String2Symbol("#NULL_DATE") right?

String2Symbol("NULL_DATE")

Robert