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JSON.CreateNumber

Creates a new JSON encoded number.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
value	The number value.	123.4

Result

Returns JSON code.

Description

Examples

Creates a number:

MBS( "JSON.CreateNumber"; 123 )

Example result: 123

Create big number:

MBS( "JSON.CreateNumber"; 12063660878882855000013426248015578834577 )

Pass through vs. number parsing:

MBS( "JSON.CreateNumber"; "123.5" ) & ¶ & MBS( "JSON.CreateNumber"; 123,5 )
// in German with comma as separator second one is parsed as double precision value.

Example result:
123.5
123.500000

See also

• JSON.AddItemToArray
• JSON.AddNumberToArray
• JSON.CreateNull

Example Databases

• JavaScript/CoordinatDistance

Blog Entries

• FileMaker and JavaScript - the perfect combination
• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 9.6pr1
• With JSON in excellent form
• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 7.6pr1

FileMaker Magazin

• Ausgabe 5/2020, Seite 17, PDF

Release notes

• Version 10.0
  • Changed JSON functions to pass through floating numbers as is without rounding, in JSON.CreateNumber, JSON.AddNumberToArray and others.
• Version 8.0
  • Fixed JSON.CreateNumber to return 0 for empty string.

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 27th November 2019

JSON.CreateNull   -   JSON.CreateObject

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