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Readers Clinic - Unusual SCRIBE Behaviour

Peter Walsh of The Turner Corp reports a problem with Scribe in version 2.12 which prevents the changing of digits after the fourth decimal place. E.G. define an MD6 field and enter 1.123456. Any attempts to change this value to a similar length value, E.G. 1.123455 will be met with failure. This is presumably because Scribe is continuing to use the old = comparison instead of the new _EQX operator.

However it seems that Scribe firstly checks the length of the before and after value before comparing their values. Hence if the lengths are different the change will be accepted. Thus whilst it is a kludge it is possible to change the value to 1.123455 by typing in 1.1234550. The trailing 0 will be removed by the MD6 conversion and the result required will be achieved.

(Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 6)
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