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can we pass numeric value in PARM

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girish.kanswa



Joined: 13 Nov 2007
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Location: pune
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:20 pm    Post subject: can we pass numeric value in PARM  
Hi All,

Can we pass numeric value through PARM parameter...? I know we can pass but it will take as numeric value or string..?

Thanks in advance
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enrico-sorichetti



Joined: 14 Mar 2007
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Location: italy
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply to: can we pass numeric value in PARM  
the parm string will be always be considered a char string,
it' s up the application program to do the proper parsing and checking
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