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[Richard Kreiss]

Came across an interesting anomaly when doing the following lookup to the next lowest.

File with index f build on master_code(10,nnn) and renewal(2,.0)

When I set lv=master_code&"99" (1234-1234599)
 44  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If:
       Then: lookup sales = sales_journal  k=lv   i=C -npl
 45  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If:         NOT sales
       Then:         GOTO post_tr

If there are 2 records using the master_code, one has renewal blank and the other has a value of 1.

I would expect that my lookup value would fail and get 1234-12345 1.  It actually gets 1234-12345 with renewal blank( not what I expected).

Tested lv=master_code&"9" (1234-123459)
This worked as expected.

Can anyone explain why the first lookup fails to properly find 1234-123451, when 1 is clearly less then 99.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting