Re: Avoiding Strange Win32::ODBC Return Values for Integers

Hmm...that's weird. Let's take it back a step, though. What happens if you try to write to a "normal" format (i.e. a text file). Something like what you have commented out in your while loop. That might be illuminating as far as whether it's ODBC giving you bad values, or it's Spreadsheet::WriteExcel interpretting them in some odd-ball way.

A third possibility is that you have to format those cells into which you're putting numeric data to actually be numbers. I seem to remember the S::WE module being fairly smart about that, though...

thor

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Re^2: Avoiding Strange Win32::ODBC Return Values for Integers by jonix (Friar) on Oct 28, 2005 at 14:19 UTC
The output is the same if I just print it - so it is what I get from ODBC already. I just checked the SQL Server table properties again - I really do a sum() over a field defined as int.	[reply]
Re^3: Avoiding Strange Win32::ODBC Return Values for Integers by thor (Priest) on Oct 28, 2005 at 15:06 UTC
So you're saying that you get a 57 with some strange character after it when you just print it as text? thor `Feel the white light, the light within Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come`	[reply]
Re^4: Avoiding Strange Win32::ODBC Return Values for Integers by jonix (Friar) on Oct 28, 2005 at 15:25 UTC
That is right - I just wrote it to a file to be able to paste it, but pasting did not work from TextPad. It tells me: can not copy... containing null (code=0) characters. Notepad.exe does not show it nor complain, but also only shows a space when pasting it. Update: It looks like 57.00[] while [] denotes the strange last character. Thanks, jonix	[reply]
Re^5: Avoiding Strange Win32::ODBC Return Values for Integers by thor (Priest) on Oct 28, 2005 at 18:49 UTC
Re^6: Avoiding Strange Win32::ODBC Return Values for Integers by jonix (Friar) on Oct 28, 2005 at 19:19 UTC
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