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From: pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Dbase 3+ Replace with Vars
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Date: 20 May 91 02:54:42 GMT
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In article <1173@shum.huji.ac.il>, seran@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (ERAN MEGIDO) writes:
|> Is it possible using dbase 3+ to use the REPLACE command with
|> variables? She gets a variable not found whilst a printing of variables
|> proves it exists.
|> Thanks,
|>    Eran
|> SERAN@vms.huji.ac.il

Absolutely!  REPLACE <field> with <variable> should give no problem.
However, your wording has me wondering if you aren't trying -
REPLACE <variable> with <variable> which is not allowed.

    Peter

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