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- From: alewalle@anl433.uucp (ames lewallen)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Help!-searching FOXPRO string fields
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.205639.11125@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 01:56:38 GMT
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- John,
-
- There's a lot of ways to do this, but the easiest way would be to do your
- search with the clause being:
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- 'address' $ fieldname
-
- This should do the trick for you.
-
- jim
-
-
- (JBC103@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:
- : We are currently evaluating FOXPRO (for DOS-I don't think windows version is
- : out yet). One problem we're having is searching alphanumeric (string) fields.
- : We want to be able to match part of the field, ie. if the field contains
- : the words "Student address list" we may want to search for every record with
- : the word "address". In Paradox, we would search for "..address..", but we
- : haven't been able to find a similar function in Foxpro. Any help would be
- : appreciated.
- :
- :
- : John Carnicella
-