Karen I agree and do sometimes but the I am realyy sure to zero fill from the left otherwise it will not sort properly
Gunnar Ekblad Kontema IT AB Hästholmsvägen 32 131 30 Nacka Sweden -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För [email protected] Skickat: den 10 juli 2009 19:01 Till: RBASE-L Mailing List Ämne: [RBASE-L] - Re: Large integer values in Rbase v8 There's really nothing wrong with using a Text datatype (you won't be using arithmetic on an invoice#). The only thing to think about is sorting -- if you think you would ever do something with a group of invoices and use a "between", you could get unintended results. Karen Mike Some Of us does not have the luxury 8.0 (Yet) so we suffer with numeric and format mask
