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  • August 22, 2012 at 12:03 am

    #1528456

    Thanks for the good question. 🙂

    wish to see more like this.

    (I guess this depends on the initial type of the data which in the first position.

    For this "select '130'+'120'+1" it will give you 130121, but for this "select 1+'120'+'130'" it will give you 251 not 121130. It takes the next value and it converts to the first value's data-type and then so on...

    select 0 + '130'+'120'+1 - this gives 251 (because the initial value type is number and it works for only int type)

    select 0 + '130'+'120'+2.56 - and the decimal works only with the end value.)

    ww; Raghu
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  • August 22, 2012 at 12:17 am

    #1528459

    Great question, thanks!

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  • August 22, 2012 at 2:53 am

    #1528511

    I guess this depends on the initial type of the data which in the first position.

    Not entirely true. (Try '130' + 1 + '120' => 251)

    If you see the links I posted earlier, the key in this case is datatype precedence. It takes the operands and applies the precedence rules - in this case, the integer takes priority, regardless of whether it's first or second.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190276 (operator precedence)

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190309 (data type precedence)

  • August 23, 2012 at 8:35 am

    #1529286

    I particularly liked this question because I got it wrong but shouldn't have!

  • September 2, 2012 at 9:00 am

    #1532732

    Hugo Kornelis (8/21/2012)

    A good question. I'll admit that I am surprised at the high number of incorrect answers; I would have expected 70 to 80 percent to get this right.

    I'm not surprised that the wrong answers are fairly evenly divided over the wrond answers; they are all very good distractors. Well done!

    And Andrew, thank you for providing the links and explanation that really explain the results; they are a good addition to the explanation and references given bij Yousaf.

    +1 - although I've noticed before that people get confused about evaluation order where operators have the same precedence, which probably accounts for some of the "251" answers.

    Tom

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