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15/09/2016 07:17:18
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01640823
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>>hi Martina,
>>
>>It appears that the problem is with the records that have UNIT_PRICE of 0.00 (zero). These records appear at the top of the report. Then, after all zero-unit-price items are printed, the items of higher UNIT_PRICE start to appear. I will try your suggestion to see if this will fix it.
>
>To push zeros to the bottom, perhaps something like this:
>
>
>FIELD1 + STR(100000000 - evl(UNIT_PRICE*100, 100000000),10) + FIELD2
>
First, thank you for your suggestion.

What Martina suggested
FIELD1 + STR(100000000 - UNIT_PRICE*100,10) + FIELD2
also works for pushing zeros to the bottom. I wonder it is different from your suggestion of using EVL(). Is there a real difference!?
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