Re: losing the negative sign?

[Mike Berman <mikeba777@xxxxxxxxx>]

I should have mentioned, in the report, the total is acting as it it is in fact positive.
Thanks, for the responses, I will dig a little deeper.

Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ulitmately it is printed with a "K" but the org, field is 7 len. does it
> lose the sign under what circumstances, would you see it losing the sign if
> at all?


Using MOVE will preserve the sign, which is stored in the final byte of the
field.  One thing I have seen before is not having enough room on a report
for the next field, and having the leading digit of it (typically blank)
overlay the trailing sign of the previous field.  It is something you may
not readily notice in casual testing if all the fields normally have
positive values.

Doug