Re: Fixed Length Numeric Fields

Posted in 1997

Tony Tyrwhitt-Drake — Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:29:57 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

NILIMA_DESAI@HP-SanJose-om1.om.hp.com wrote in article <5vrl4b$njp@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > I need to define a NUMERIC field that must have a fixed length of 2 > bytes in an Informix 4GL program. (details clipped) > A CHAR data type 2 bytes long does work, but that is not what I > exactly want. An approach would be to define the field as a char(2) and write C routines to perform the desired math functions. A much more interesting question has to be, why do you want to do this?