Subject: | Re: Locate Issue
| Date: | Tue, 1 Dec 2020 12:53:33 -0800
| From: | Peter <peterspammenot@whiteknight.email>
| Newsgroups: | pnews.paradox-programming
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I'll bet it is a rounding problem. Try viewing the number that Pdox is
searching.
I had a huge problem working with decimals, I ended having to create an
undefined field that awas formatted to 15 decimal places. I copy the
number to that field and then read it, then everything behaves as expected.
Peter
On 12/1/2020 10:50 AM, Steve Levet wrote:
> I have a table with numeric tracking for orders. The Ordernum field is N and
> is the primary key. When orders are released which are not complete any backordered
> items are copied to a new record and the Ordernum is incremented by 0.1.
> As an example I have an Ordernum of 194314.0, 194314.1, 194314.2, 194314.3
> and 194314.4. When I click locate and enter the .0, .1 or .2 number the record
> is found. However, any number above .2, eg 194314.3 or 194314.4 cannot be
> found unless I select advanced pattern match. Any idea on why and how this
> can be corrected so that I can find the Ordernums above .2?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve
>
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