Microsoft KB Archive/93435

= FIX: GPF/UAE When Converting String > 32K to Double Precision =

Article ID: 93435

Article Last Modified on 1/9/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q93435



SYMPTOMS
When converting a large string that is greater than 32K into a double precision number, a General Protection (GP) fault or Unrecoverable Application Error (UAE) can occur. An example of this problem is described in detail further below. This problem also occurs with the functions CCur, CInt, CLng, CSng as well as CDbl.



WORKAROUND
To work around the problem, break the string into two parts, an x part and a y part. Then you can print both parts one after the other and the error does not occur because each part is less than 32K. Here is an example:   Show x = String(20000, &quot;1&quot;) y = String(20000, &quot;1&quot;) Print CDbl(x);CDbl(y)



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Standard and Professional Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic version 2.0 for Windows. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Visual Basic version 3.0 for Windows.



MORE INFORMATION
The following steps can be used to reproduce this problem:

 Start VB.EXE.  Add the following code to the Form_Load event procedure: Show x = String(40000, &quot;1&quot;) Print CDbl(x)  Press the F5 key to run the example and a GPF or a UAE occurs.

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