>>>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:
>>
>>

>>
>>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')
>>
>
>.NULL. value?
>
>IF (Abs.late==0 OR ISNULL(Abs.late)) AND ;
>   (Abs.absent==0 OR ISNULL(Abs.absent)) AND ;
>   (Abs.early==0 OR ISNULL(Abs.early))
>     MESSAGEBOX('You need to make a non-zero entry') + CHR(13) + ;
>          'in either Late:, Absent:, or Early:', 0+48+0, 'Error')
>
>ENDIF
>
>

If not using .NULL. ?
if empty(abs.late + abs.absent + abs.early)
messagebox(...