Negative zero using Crystal Report ToText()

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Published on 2010-05-12T15:09:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 15:14 UTC
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Using Crystal Reports 8.5 on Windows Vista or 7, I'm using the ToText function to report a value:

totext(Sum ({ap121w7.yrentamt}, {@type1099})*100,"000000000000000000")

The result (if yrentamt is 0) is -000000000000000000 The dash (I assume it's a negative sign) is unneccessary and unwanted in my report. Is this a bug, or is there an easy solution?

--Note--

I would very much like to avoid the following:

if {ap121w7.yrentamt}=0.00 then
    yrentamt := "000000000000"
else
    yrentamt := totext({ap121w7.yrentamt}*100,"000000000000");

I have about 100 files to fix with multiple formulas per file, and the above solution doesn't seem to work consistently either.

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