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Error on import of exponential number

Gene
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I am importing data via OBDC from an SQL server. I am getting errors in interpetation of numeric values when importing exponential numbers. It is interpeting as example 7.10000000000000E-15 as 7.1. It is essentailly ignoring the exponential notation. Any ideas how I can correct this problem??

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Originally posted by Gene:

I am importing data via OBDC from an SQL server. I am getting errors in interpetation of numeric values when importing exponential numbers. It is interpeting as example 7.10000000000000E-15 as 7.1. It is essentailly ignoring the exponential notation. Any ideas how I can correct this problem??

Well, the problem is that 7.10000000000000E-15 is not really a number, it is the representation of a number, the text representation in this case. When importing this into a numeric field, Filemaker will drop the non-numeric part "E-15" and then you are left with 7.1.

I am not sure if there is a way around this.

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