Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!silver!tsui
From: tsui@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: foxbase problem, need help
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Date: 29 Jul 89 04:28:00 GMT
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/* Written  9:04 pm  Jul 28, 1989 by englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU in silver:comp.databases */
It's hard to tell exactly what you're doing, and what i know is based on
fairly little experience with the Mac version 2.0 of Fox, but here's my $0.02.

Shortening line length of conditions: I have run into this on the Mac;
the limit is 255 characters.  On thing i discovered about expressions is
that spaces are absolutely extraneous.  So strip them, if you haven't
already.  Also, why do you need the ()s around the field names?
                                               - Scott
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I have already striped the spaces.  The reason why I put ()s there is that
The users can put ! to stand for .NOT. For example:

filed[2] input : !This is right

then the code becomes:

condition = condition + ".not."+....
Sorry I did not specify that.

--yufeng