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- From: mancini@circle.cs.jhu.edu (Todd A. Mancini)
- Subject: Paradox bug/feature in query form? (3.5)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.183802.12921@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Sender: news@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Usenet news system)
- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:38:02 GMT
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- Here's something I noticed in PDOX35, but have not yet tested in PDOX40...
-
- When I use a variable name in a query form from PAL (by using the
- ~variablename) notation, if the variable contains any wildcards they are
- ignored. Is this documented?
-
- For example, the query:
-
- cust | last_name | first_name |
- | check M.. | check |
- | | |
-
- would find every customer whose last name begins with `M'. However,
-
- LNAME = "M.."
-
- query
-
- cust | last_name | first_name |
- | check ~LNAME | check |
- | | |
-
- endquery
-
- DO_IT!
-
- does NOT find these customers. I have been able to get around this by using
- the TYPEIN command, but this is not elegant. Any hints?
-
- -Todd
- (mancini@cs.jhu.edu)
-
-