trunc(?)

[dunbarx at aol.com]

This came up in the forum. Someone was getting hung up with an object 
reference.

Paraphrasing:

set numberformat to "#.00"
put 1 into y
add 0 to y
put foo into field ("myField & y)

Rev thought it was field "myField1.00", not field "myfield1".

I advised him to extract the integer portion only by using the offset 
function. Works fine.

But I cavalierly thought that trunc would work too. It does not. Even 
though the docs say that trunc returns an integer, it does not when the 
numberFormat is in   play:

on mouseUp
    set numberformat to "#.00"
    put 1 into y
    add 0 to y
    answer trunc(y) -- yields "1.00"
end mouseUp

Neither does the "round" function.

Same in HC, by the way.

Bug? Glitch? Newman not getting it again?

Craig Newman