>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.

Chuck, Someone else may have suggested this (it's a long thread, and I've missed a couple of days) but are you working with data just input into a form? If so, you should be working with your Thisform.txtLate.value instead of abs.Late unless you are certain you have all the data in the buffer or saved to disk.

Follow the code with Debug to check the values just before the messagebox is called.

HTH
Barbara