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nubi
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Hi all,

noticed this today; when doing a print command you can total a column by typing column-total after it...

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT RCOST COLUMN-TOTAL
END

pretty neat eh?

i reckon over half of you may know this but judging by my colleagues suprise over this discovery i thought i'd share as i think it a nicer way of handling column totals.

any comments or findings?

sorry if this is a repost.


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GamP
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Yeah, neat!

Of course, it is internally translated to:
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT RCOST
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL
END

Another nice thing is that you can add a 's' to every field in your request.
It is reputed to enhance the readability of the request.
Something like:
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT SEATS DCOSTS RCOSTS
BY COUNTRYS
END


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mgrackin
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This has been around a very long time. It is the same as saying ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL. You only need to put COLUMN-TOTAL once on the PRINT/SUM statement and it will create a column total for ALL numeric fields on the report.


Thanks!

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Darin Lee
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You can also specify fieldnames after the column-total if you only want certain column to be totalled instad of all of them - handy when one of you columns may be PHONE_NUMBER.


Regards,

Darin


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nubi
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ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL


both ways work well- depends on how you work i guess,


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