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WizradWizrad 

Decimal Places

Hi all,

 

When you create a field of type number, you are allowed to enter a number of digits before and after the decimal.  My understanding was that if you entered  a value with too many digits before or after the decimal place, you would get an error on insert/update.  However, that is not the case.

 

 

MyObject__c mo = new MyObject__c();
mo.Name = 'Testing rounding';
mo.Temporary__c = 123.4567890; //This field defined as Number(10,2)
insert mo;
System.debug('val = ' + mo.Temporary__c);

 

 

I would expect one of two outcomes from the above code:

 

1) Exception when I try to insert.

or

2) Truncate or round the number accordingly.

 

However, instead the debug statement prints out:

 

 

14:42:44.063|USER_DEBUG|[6]|DEBUG|val = 123.4567890

 

 

So...what does limiting the number of digits before/after the decimal place even do?  Do I really have to manually chop this number off at 2 decimal places every time I want to use it?

 

Thanks!

MickleMickle

I found this in the documentation when researching a similiar issue:

 

When the user sets the precision in custom fields in the Salesforce.com application, it displays the precision set by the user, even if the user enters a more precise value than defined for those fields. However, when you set the precision in custom fields using the API, no rounding occurs when the user retrieves the number field.

 

 

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/primitive_data_types.htm