>>IF Statement Doesn't Seem to be Working
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>>I have numeric fields in a table of employee absence data as follows ...
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>>Abs.late
>>Abs.absent
>>Abs.early
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>>I have written an error-checking IF statement that doesn't seem to be working, but yet, VFP does not generate an error on it either.
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>>IF Abs.late=0 AND Abs.absent=0 AND Abs.early=0
>> MESSAGEBOX('You need to make a non-zero entry') + CHR(13) + ;
>> 'in either Late:, Absent:, or Early:', 0+48+0, 'Error')
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>>Even if the fields Late, Absent, & Early contain zeros (0.00), this MESSAGEBOX never gets processed, the program just goes right on as if everything is fine.
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>>Need help. TIA, CH.
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>0.0 and 0 is no difference at all.
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>I suspect the pointer is not sitting on the desired record. However, try:
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>IF Abs.late==0 AND Abs.absent==0 AND Abs.early==0
>     MESSAGEBOX('You need to make a non-zero entry') + CHR(13) + ;
>          'in either Late:, Absent:, or Early:', 0+48+0, 'Error')
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This won't make a difference. Exactly equal ( == ) only works with character data.