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sosterle
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Am I just doing something stupid or has anyone else had an issue changing the format of a packed field to a decimal on a BY field?


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S.J. Kadish
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Do you mean something like:

PRINT PRICE
BY SEATS/D4.2

if not then please put your code out there.


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susannah
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reformatting actually creates a second field, under the covers. so no, you can't reformat on a BY.



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sosterle
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Y'know, I had a sneaky suspicion that's what was going on, but thanks so much for confirming.


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Francis Mariani
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example:

DEFINE FILE CAR
SEATSD/D7 = SEATS;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
RETAIL_COST
BY SEATSD
END


Francis


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