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Re: Re Filtering above - apologies

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From: Romain Strieff [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:00
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In article <01be6af7$f2d27de0$d30ad3d4@CIS.CIS>, Derek Fawell politely 
paraphrased ...
> After six hours at the machine and then sending previous message, I have
> found the cause not a solution but another problem.
> 
> The data I am using is from Xbase with a simple debit, credit and paid
> field. The xbase files have either debit or credit empty. I used the old
> xbase command 'replace' on the file to set my paid fields. The 7.01 does
> not recognise a numeric field with a dot entry as empty as opposed to a
> 0.00 which it seems to do.
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Yes we got finally true null support as thousands of users have asked for 
this feature the last dozen years.
Set a default value of 0 if you don't want that behaviour.
Same thing for logical values.

Also why are you using REPLACE? Since it can be calculated at any time if 
credit>=debit (or the other way round depending on your system) it should 
be a calulated field IMO.
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From: teamb@opto-pps.com (Romain Strieff [TeamB])
Subject: Re: Re Filtering above - apologies
Date: 1999/03/10
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