Re: Negative numbers problem

[Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam
Question: Would a credit back to the credit card appear as a positive value
in this field?
If so, be careful how you handle the sign.
Any reason why you cannot just add the two fields together? With the field
being negative, this would result in a subtraction


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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/29/2008 01:06:24 PM:

> I have a field which is a credit amount so it has the negative sign.
> I have to subtract this from the Allowance account amount, to show
> the user how much is left in the account. I am getting that it adds
> it bec. negative minus negative. What sort of techniques are best to
> use? I can simply declare it to be pos. in the first place i suppose.
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