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Re: Receiving exponent in incoming value: Suggest Urgent
Jörg Thönnes / MACD Macdonald Associates
4 Aug 2011 2:27AM ET

> Hi,
> We have implemented a fix for receiving a message. The problem we are facing that we are receiving exponent value in on of our incoming message.
> e.g. 9.99999999999446E-4
>
> instead of it should be 0.0010.
>
> what setting we need to do?
>
> Please suggest!! its very urgent

Numbers with exponents (...E-4) are not supported by the FIX protocol.
While your program formats these numbers in this way depends on your
programming language / library.

Cheers, Jörg


Receiving exponent in incoming value: Suggest Urgent
Tushar Wankhede / xyz   5 Jul 2011 6:40AM ET
Re: Receiving exponent in incoming value: Suggest Urgent
Jörg Thönnes / MACD Macdonald Associates   4 Aug 2011 2:27AM ET