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From: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: CLIPPER: recursive dbedit()
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Date: 25 Apr 91 21:47:29 GMT
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Reply-To: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>)
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A couple of days ago I asked for some help on removing duplicates
from an array that would eventually be used in achoice(). Somebody
( sorry I forgot your name, thx for the tip ) asked me "why not just
create a unique index and dbedit() the sucker?" Why not indeed, works
like a champ.

However (there's always a "however", right) the user wants the
picklist to remain so they can select an item, have it process,
select another item, have it process, etc. In other words, I want
to do something like:
   do while ! lastkey()=27
     dbedit()
   enddo

Words great with an achoice() array, dbedit() freaks. Can anyone
enlighten me?

Thanks in advance

Mark Aurit
maurit@nrtc.northrop.com