Hello all,
I ask this question because I searched and did not find anything that related to this query. My apologies if this is a mistake.
Please see the following code. I am using 2 ASP pages. One to fill up a decimal value (it is actually the unit price of something) and the other to receive and process it. The value in the first page can be entered by the user as a whole number OR as a number with decimal places. Ex. 2345.88 since products tend to have that kind of values.
Now this is in the second ASP page where I receive it. -
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Dim price
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' Let us assume I entered 1245.76 in the previous form
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price = Request.form("price")
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Response.write price
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'The above print will show 1245.76 without problems. So far so good.
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'But then I do some math with it and print it.
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price = price * 5.5
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Response.write price %>
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And this time it prints 685168 where as it should print 6851.68 and hence the data is completely incorrect.
I tried FormatNumber which did not work. Someone suggested "&FormatNumber(price,2)&" which also did not work.
Help please!
Thank you so much.
Sk
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Sk,
That's odd. I just tried it here and it worked fine.
Jared
Sk,
That's odd. I just tried it here and it worked fine.
Jared
yes....it does work fine in your example. In mine it still does not work properly. Any functions or formatting structures you might know to help me with this?
Please help.
Sk
yes....it does work fine in your example. In mine it still does not work properly. Any functions or formatting structures you might know to help me with this?
Please help.
Sk
I can't think of anything off hand, maybe if I saw your code...
Are you using a formatPercent or something similar at some point?
Jared
I can't think of anything off hand, maybe if I saw your code...
Are you using a formatPercent or something similar at some point?
Jared
Nope. Nothing of that sort. Just a plain old Request.QueryString from a textbox of another ASP file. The value that enters the second page is stored as Dim and thats about it.
Could this be some server sided issue? Like some regional setting on the server that its running on? What do you think?
Sk
The example that you originally provided is completely sound, there's no reason for that simple example not to work, which makes me think there's got to be something in your code interfering with it and dropping the decimal places somewhere.
To be of any help to you I think we'll need to see your code.
You're not treating the number with any numerical functions are you? A lot of numerical functions like CInt() in asp will kill the decimal places and turn it into a whole number, or just drop the decimal numbers all together in order to derive a whole number.
My best guess is that you've probably got something like that in there, but If that's not the case - show your code so we can look through it and see what's going on.
Here is the code sample. Kindly help.
test.asp
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<html>
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<head>
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<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
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<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
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<title>New Page 1</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<form method="GET" action="displayDec.asp">
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<p><input type="text" name="price" size="20"></p>
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<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"></p>
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</form>
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</body>
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</html>
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displayDec.asp
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Dim price
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price = Request.QueryString("price")
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Response.Write("Before multiplying it: " & price)
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price = price * 7.2
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Response.Write("<br>" & "After multiplying it with 7.2 : " & price)
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%>
SAMPLE OUTPUTS (and a NEW error! :( )
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If I enter 2.0 in price then it prints 144.
If I enter just the number 2 in price then it prints 14,4 (this did not happen before. I don't know why it is printing a COMMA now instead of a decimal place!!!!)
If I enter 0.01 then it prints 7,2 (again the comma appears)
PLEASE help guys. This thing is totally freaking me out. :(
Cheers,
Sk
Here is the code sample. Kindly help.
test.asp
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<html>
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<head>
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<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
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<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
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<title>New Page 1</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<form method="GET" action="displayDec.asp">
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<p><input type="text" name="price" size="20"></p>
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<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"></p>
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</form>
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</body>
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</html>
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displayDec.asp
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Dim price
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price = Request.QueryString("price")
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Response.Write("Before multiplying it: " & price)
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price = price * 7.2
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Response.Write("<br>" & "After multiplying it with 7.2 : " & price)
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%>
SAMPLE OUTPUTS (and a NEW error! :( )
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If I enter 2.0 in price then it prints 144.
If I enter just the number 2 in price then it prints 14,4 (this did not happen before. I don't know why it is printing a COMMA now instead of a decimal place!!!!)
If I enter 0.01 then it prints 7,2 (again the comma appears)
PLEASE help guys. This thing is totally freaking me out. :(
Cheers,
Sk
Is there some reason you can't use method=post rather than method=get? I'm not sure if this is causing a problem, but it might. Things sent by querystring need to be formatted for putting in the querystring and I think a period is a special character in a URL.
Using a comma rather than a decimal point is a region-specific behavior. Check your server's region settings.
Jared
Is there some reason you can't use method=post rather than method=get? I'm not sure if this is causing a problem, but it might. Things sent by querystring need to be formatted for putting in the querystring and I think a period is a special character in a URL.
Using a comma rather than a decimal point is a region-specific behavior. Check your server's region settings.
Jared
Dear Jared,
That is what I thought as well. But I tried it with POST and Request.Form and the same thing happens. So I don't think it is the GET which is causing the problem.
So could you please help in showing how exactly values are formatted for such scenarios using QueryString?
And you are right. I am pretty sure it has something to do with the server settings here. I will have to look into that.
Thank you.
Sk
I agree with Jared, it's got to be something server specific. In fact, almost all regions use a comma instead of a period to donate a decimal place, So i would definately check that first. Though, after running your code I did change the region on my personal computer and my server to finish and re-ran the page and did not get a comma as a decimal place.
I ran your exact code, without modifying it, and the following was returned:
Before multiplying it: 7
After multiplying it with 7.2 : 50.4
Correct calculation and correct use of decimal places etc.
I agree with Jared, it's got to be something server specific. In fact, almost all regions use a comma instead of a period to donate a decimal place, So i would definately check that first. Though, after running your code I did change the region on my personal computer and my server to finish and re-ran the page and did not get a comma as a decimal place.
I ran your exact code, without modifying it, and the following was returned:
Before multiplying it: 7
After multiplying it with 7.2 : 50.4
Correct calculation and correct use of decimal places etc.
Hmm....I dont know what else to do now. I even showed the problem to my network admin here but she insists it is not a server related issue. I have given her the code....lets see what happens.
Thank you.
Sk
It has to be, I honesly don't see what else it could be! If Jared and I can copy and paste your exact code that you specified in previous post(s) and run it on our servers and it does return the desired result, but doesn't on the server which you're running it on - then there's only one difference there. That difference being the environment that it's being run in.
Well, hopefully he/she can come up with something to fix the problem!
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