Numeric sorting problem

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sat Mar 12 13:17:29 EST 2005


On 3/12/05 6:29 AM, "Karen" <Karen at curlypaws.com> wrote:

> I'm a bit stumped as to why this isn't working, but it may be impacted by
> the fact that the numeric fields are formatted using a statement such as:
> 
> put format("%8.2f",tField) into tField
> 
> Before being put into the lines, to ensure that they line up correctly.
> Could the leading spaces affect the sort?

That's it, Karen... do your sort *before* you run your format() command and
you should be OK.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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