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- From: johnboyd@ocdis01.UUCP (John Boyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: two foxpro questions
- Message-ID: <133@ocdis01.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 21:22:18 GMT
- References: <9212301852.AA11765@chimi.engr.ucdavis.edu>
- Organization: Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma
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- In article <9212301852.AA11765@chimi.engr.ucdavis.edu> mahadeva@chimi.engr.ucdavis.edu (Vimalan Mahadevan) writes:
- >I am writing a data entry program program uising FoxPro and plan on writing
- [deleted]
- >2) Supposing you have a field which contains the middle initial of a person.
- >I don't want the user to have to enter the period after the initial. How
- >can the program be instructed to automatically enter a period after the user
- >enters the letter?
- If you want a separate (sp) field just for the initial (debatable) then
- just make the field one character long (not cross-culturally adequate), and
- add the period on printed/listed output, and don't carry it in the data.
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