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- From: rhaven@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Paradox bug/feature in query form? (3.5)
- Summary: Wildcard Varibles in Paradox QBE
- Message-ID: <4896@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 22:08:02 PST
- References: <1993Jan7.183802.12921@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Sender: rhaven@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Reply-To: rhaven@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
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- It is a known and expected behavior. There is really no way to have
- tilde variables (variables in query statements) be able to both
- represent literal text and have wildcards in theme.
-
- One alternative is to use a more UI driven technique.
-
- CLEARALL
- MENU {Ask} SELECT "Cust" ;; you can use a variable here if you want
- [Last_name] = variable + ".." ;; assign the query fields
- ;; as if they were data fields
- MOVETO [Last_Name] CHECK
- MOVETO [First_Name] CHECK
-
- DO_IT!
-
- This technique allows a lot more flexibility because any string expression
- can be assigned to a Query field. Example elements can be assigned like:
-
- [Link Field] = "_xyz"
-
- You can set the keywords in the far left column like this:
-
- [#] = "delete"
-
- You must move to the field to set Checkmarks, however. There are several
- conversion scripts on Compuserv which will write this sort of code for
- a Query on the workspace.
-
- Cheers
- Richard
-