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Converting data to metric
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From
18/11/2004 17:31:04
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
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18/11/2004 16:44:01
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00962835
Message ID:
00962853
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>I have a cursor that is used for the data source of a report. Just numbers. The report displays the numbers in metric or english depending on the users preference, but the data is actually held in the cursor in english.
>
>I also allow the user to dump that data table out to an excel file, via the "export" function. My problem is; now I have someone wanting that data file in metric.
>
>Since the structure of the cursor varies, depending on the choices, this is seeming like a tedious task. Any suggestions?

Steve,
If in report you can do the coversion then you can do it with a view on data. Would it matter to enduser being it a table or view?
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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