SMALLFLOAT
The SMALLFLOAT
data type stores values as
single-precision floating-point binary numbers with up to 8 significant
digits.
Syntax
SMALLFLOAT
SMALLFLOAT
andREAL
are synonyms.
Usage
The storage of SMALLFLOAT
variables is based on 4 bytes of signed
data ( =32 bits), this type is equivalent to the float
data type in C.
Note: This data type is not recommended for exact decimal storage; use the
DECIMAL
data type instead.SMALLFLOAT
variables are initialized to zero in functions, modules
and globals.
SMALLFLOAT
values can be converted to strings based on the DBFORMAT (or DBMONEY) environment variable
setting.
Data type conversion can be controlled by catching the runtime exceptions. For more details, see Handling type conversion errors.