[Gambas-user] iif bug?

[Oliver Etchebarne Bejarano]

eH-- it fails with text="" or text="oliver" or anything non-numeric. 
Sorry :)

Oliver Etchebarne Bejarano wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I'm trying this:
> 
> ------
> 
> dim id as integer
> dim text as string
> 
> text = "1"
> id = iif(IsNull(Val(text)), 0, Val(text))
> 
> ------
> 
> Obviously, I want to obtain the numeric value of "text", or 0 if it is 
> not a valid number. But that code fails with
> 
> ERROR: Type mismatch: wanted Integer, got Null instead.
> 
> It looks like Gambas is evaluating both true and false parts before
> doing the iif check, and I think that shouldn't be the correct behavior.
> 
> btw I'm trying this on gambas 1.9.29
> 
> HTH
> 

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Oliver Etchebarne Bejarano
drmad/paperclip
www.paperclip.com.pe