>>>IF Statement Doesn't Seem to be Working
>>>
>>>I have numeric fields in a table of employee absence data as follows ...
>>>
>>>Abs.late
>>>Abs.absent
>>>Abs.early
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>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')
>>>
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Need help. TIA, CH.
>>
>>0.0 and 0 is no difference at all.
>>
>>I suspect the pointer is not sitting on the desired record. However, try:
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>>
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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.

Oppps..sorry for being innocent on the workaround of == Craig. Maybe G. Santerre has the right solution: ISNULL()