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From: man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Bug in mark!  (was: How to find fields that DO NOT contain a string?)
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Date: 21 Jun 91 18:58:04 GMT
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In article <mike.677190682@ushi>, mike@ymt.com (Michael Czeiszperger) writes:
|> I'm trying to set up a system where the stack user picks the search
|> criteria.  The "mark cards" syntax is supposed to be:
|> 
|> mark cardexpr where expr
|> 
|> You would think expr could be a variable containing a syntax structure,
|> but this is not the case.  As a workaround, I actually have to generate
|> the script for the mark call from the search script, and then execute it!

How about using
   mark cards where value(criteria)
to do it?

	--Mark