An Old Man Needs Help

[John Esak]

Hey Bob,
If the client is really on 4.8, why not just do a descending index on the
date segment??

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Bob Stockler
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 9:33 PM
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> Subject: An Old Man Needs Help
>
>
> I used to know how to do this, but brain fade at how many years
> old I am (at this age I can't remember), so I need help (though
> I could probably figure it out myself in a week or two).
>
> The client is on filePro 4.8.?.
>
> He needed a -decending- sort on Invoice Numbers (9,.0).  I added
> a field (9,.0) to the file and populated it with values that are
> "9999999999" - Invoice Number, which worked OK, but it turned out
> that his Invoice Numbers started out in 1992 to be <= 6 digits,
> then (at some point in time, for unknown reasons) became 7 digit
> numbers for a while, and then reverted to being 6 digit numbers,
> so he isn't getting what he wanted.
>
> So I want to give him a decending sort on dates.  I'm thinking,
> add a field to the records - Inverse_Date 10 mm/dd/yyyy - then
> populate it with "12/31/9999" - Invoice_Date, and sort on it.
>
> This is a secondary sort on Customer_Number, so I think this
> should do it.  Will it ? ? ?
>
> Bob (who doesn't need any "Have you tried it?" responses)
>
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