>I've defined a UDF as a method in a form which will run a report, the UDF will be called from the report field expression, it can work in preview(REPORT FORM PREVIEW) but couldn't work when send to printer(REPORT FORM TO PRINTER), instead of printing the correct figure, it print the format string.(eg. 9,999,999.99).
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>If I create a variable in report writer, the expression of the variable is the UDF, when I used the variable with some calculation, an error message "Data type miss match" will be given when running the report.
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>Please help.
>Any body can help, thanks in advance.

If you have the character type of the variable in the report writer
as a numeric, change it to a character field. Or if it is a character
field, change it to a numeric. (I think you must have it as a numeric).

Gene