It seems you use VFP 9, so you can use the CAST function. For older versions, you can use one of the following (to convert to currency):
... NumericField * $1 AS CurrencyField ...
... ntom(NumericField) AS CurrencyField ...
>Hi All:
>
>How do I fix the following to make it UNION compatible? It's not compatible since one field is numeric and the other is currency. This is just a scaled-down example. In the real system, I'm not able to change the definition of Currency in File1.
>
>
>CLOSE ALL
>
>CREATE TABLE ('file1') ;
> (fname C(30), ;
> extprice Y)
>
>CREATE TABLE ('file2') ;
> (fname c(30))
>
>SELECT fname, extprice ;
>FROM file1 ;
>union all ;
>SELECT fname, 000000.00 as extprice ;
>FROM file2 ;
>INTO CURSOR blarg
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>Thanks,
>
>Yossi
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