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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CPC865.EAST-ANGLIA.AC.UK!S090
  3. Via:      UK.AC.UEA.CPC865; 22 DEC 92 17:00:26 GMT
  4. Message-ID: <DBASE-L%92122211065700@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX>
  5. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.dbase-l
  6. Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:00:00 GMT
  7. Sender:       "Discussion on the use of the dBase language and related
  8.               dialects" <DBASE-L@NMSUVM1.BITNET>
  9. From:         "P.NEWBY" <S090@CPC865.EAST-ANGLIA.AC.UK>
  10. Subject:      Conditional calculated fields.
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  13. dBASE IV version 1.1
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  15. A calculated field can be used to calculate a value, by setting an expression,
  16. eg f1+f2+f3.
  17.  
  18. Working just from the Control Center, is it possible to make this a conditional
  19. calculation ? Something along the lines of:
  20.    if (f99='student') then f1+f2+f3
  21.  
  22. Pat Newby, Computing Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
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