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October

When is a zero not a zero??????

Over the last few months I have had a number of clients contact me w.r.t. their conditional formulas returning unexpected results.

The issue seems to stem from testing a value for 0!

On the face of it its seems to be an easy enough fix, until you try it yourself, and you find that sometimes in Crystal Report 0<>0!

When looking at a value and all you see is 0, one automatically assumes the value is 0, even if one decides to go to 3 or 4 decimal points, but if the actual figure is 0.00000000001, technically this is not zero, and therein lies the problem!

Solution:

Use the function Round()

If Round({tablename.fieldname},2) then ....

This way the conditional formula is only testing the first 2 decimal places of the field to determine if its 0 or not


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