RE: query and absolute value

[Doug Johnson <djohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vernon,

I changed the way that I was calculating the total that I was looking for so
that I could use the data from a different field in the file and avoid the
problem of mismatched signs in my original calculation.

Thanks,

-doug


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
Sent:   Friday, March 22, 2002 4:03 PM
To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject:        RE: query and absolute value

What did you do, if you don't mind?

At 04:03 PM 3/22/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Thanks for the info, I finally figured out a different way to get what I
>need.
>
>-doug
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
>Sent:   Friday, March 22, 2002 3:13 PM
>To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
>Subject:        Re: query and absolute value
>
>Not that I know of. The DIGITS function will ignore the sign, but it
>creates a character string. No way to convert back.
>