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pmarie

I have experienced an error when casting a float to a decimal with Windows Regional settings = French.
The CAST function returns the following error:
"A attempt was made to translate the string 1,00005E+4 into a decimal value, but the string did not comply with the expected format. The string must comply to format: [sign]figure[.figure], where sign can be '+' or '-', and figures can be one or several decimal figures. The string must not be empty nor include more than 31 figures."
This error does not occur when Windows Regional settings = US English.
My impressions are:
1) Although the variable is declared as float in the MRM message definition, internally WMQI seems to store it as a string.
2) When storing the float in a string, if Windows Regional settings = French, WMQI uses a coma for the decimal point separator (this is the French convention).
3) But when WMQI executes the CAST function, WMQI does not remember that it used a coma instead of a dot and diagnose a syntax error.

Patrick MARIE