Getting Started with dBASE - Re: Can I use a varible to set the filter?

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Re: Can I use a varible to set the filter?

Ken Mayer [dBVIPS]

2006-10-25, 7:23 am

Forrest Ganther wrote:
> I want to use a variable as the filter criteria,
> but I can't figure out how. Even Ken's book
> doesn't address that. Is it possible?
>
> If not how can I work around?

Sorry about that, I couldn't squeeze everything into that book, large as
it is. <g>

As others have pointed out, there are ways. The simplest thing to
remember is that the filter is just a character string, so if you can
build a string that would evaluate to a logical value, it should work
for your filter.

Ken

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