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Numerical Order

Printed From: Crystal Reports Book
Category: Crystal Reports 9 through 2020
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Printed Date: 27 Apr 2024 at 8:58pm


Topic: Numerical Order
Posted By: thesmug1
Subject: Numerical Order
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2009 at 8:39am
When I tell Crystal Reports to sort the data by a column of numbers in ascending order, it is not truly in ascending order.  For example, here is an excerpt from my list.

27005745
27006539
2856458
2857425
28771369
28776409

Obviously 27005745 is larger than 2856458, so does anyone know why this is happening and how to correct it?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


Replies:
Posted By: DBlank
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2009 at 8:42am
I am guessing this is a text field with numeric characters in it.
Use a fomula to convert it to a number and sort on the formula field.
tonumber({table.textfield})


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