RE: FP: Trapping division by zero (Error 1307)

Author: Allen

Posted: 2013-08-12 at 10:59:47

Not so, I have a select that fell over with div/0 and an on error dealt with

that.

Al

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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan

Bourke

Sent: 12 August 2013 15:28

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Subject: Re: FP: Trapping division by zero (Error 1307)

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013, at 02:21 PM, L ALVEY wrote:

> ON ERROR doesn't work either.

>

No, it's not regarded as an error or exception so the only thing that

you can do is check in code before doing a division where there's a

chance the divisor will be zero.

If you look at how various languages handle it, there is no consistent

way.

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