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Lloyd
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HI Guys, Iam trying to create a amper variable to substitute the BY HIGHEST verb in my fex but it's not working for me....

I use this code before my define table


-* SET
-SET &TOP_# = IF &TOP_N.EVAL GT '0O' THEN &TOP_N ELSE &TOP_N.EVAL * -1;
-SET &BY_BY = IF EDIT(&TOP_N.EVAL) GT 'O0' THEN 'BY HIGHEST ' ELSE 'BY LOWEST ';
-SET &HI_LO = &BY_BY | '&TOP_#.EVAL' | ' TOTAL TY_MTD NOPRINT' ;
-? &HI_LO
no matter what I try it only takes the else clause, how do you evaluate amper varibales as numeric?

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<Pietro De Santis>
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Assuming &TOP_N is always numeric:


-SET &ECHO=ALL;
-SET &TOP_N = -16;

-SET &TOP_# = IF &TOP_N GT 00 THEN &TOP_N ELSE (-1 * &TOP_N);
-SET &BY_BY = IF &TOP_N GT 00 THEN 'BY HIGHEST ' ELSE 'BY LOWEST ';
-SET &HI_LO = &BY_BY | &TOP_# | ' TOTAL TY_MTD NOPRINT' ;
-TYPE &HI_LO
It looks like your '0O' is a zero and an O - is this intentional?

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Lloyd
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NO that wasn't intentional and I did'nt even realize it. Originally it was just the 0, but it kept giving me errors at the '* -1'. But changed the code and used the ABS funtion and it worked fine.
 
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<JG>
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with regard the * -1 It needs to be coded as *(-1)
or in your actual code (-1*(&TOP_N ))
 
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