[gdal-dev] numeric values in VFK driver

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 6 juin 2018 19:27:50 CEST Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2018-06-05 11:16 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:
> > For >= 19 characters, bigint cannot be used indeed. There isn't much other
> > choice than storing as a string.
> 
> right. In [1] I switched at least to CPLAtoGIntBigEx(). BTW I would
> expect that a warning will be printed also on invalid character. But
> 
> * 7423849274x is silently parsed as 7423849274
> * x7423849274 is silently parsed as 0
> 
> Is it expected behaviour of CPLAtoGIntBigEx()?

Good question. The doc of the function only mentions under/overflows, so the 
cases you mention above do not technically match that.

You can use CPLGetValueType(str) == CPL_VALUE_INTEGER as an additional test to 
check if it is an integer (of arbitrary length)

Even

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