Recent content by Steve Meyerson

BlueSharp, One more thing. Chris is not only correct, but points out, in my opinion, the most important principle to develop reports for a specific task. You might want a report containing data from multiple files, but you know it scans only a single table. Many many times in my experience I...

...the general principle of working on the currently selected workarea when it comes to data....

I also think Doug's solution is best. I rarely use CAST. 00.00 will produce a N(5,2) field in the result. Incidentally, 000.000 will produce a N(7,3) field, 000 will produce a N(3) field, etc., etc. Steve

Karen, Another possibility might be Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (64-bit). Using the Scan & OCR feature, it will convert a pdf to several formats including plain text. You would of course need to rearrange the text to fit your form. My sample test showed it to be pretty accurate. Not sure how much, if...

Filip, Suggest you look up parameters AGAIN and ALIAS in the USE command. It will take you far. Steve

I think you might mean OCCURS(" ",lcString)+1

Filip, Just a reminder. Don't forget to add one to the field length if you need to allow a negative number. For example -99.9 could overflow a N(4,1) field. Should be N(5,1). Steve

None of the above. Many years ago I taught Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, Assembly & RPG but never actually used them. My method was to stay a chapter (or 2?) ahead of the class. :geek:

Chris, I can seee why Mandy might want to call the form that way - but ONLY if there is data in the "opening" form which is needed in the next form. Of course, as you say, there are better ways of doing it. Steve

Thank you, Mike. I've stared at the Favorites tab a thousand times, but never used it. No more. [dazed] Steve

There's VFP and there's everyone else. When I hear the term "database" used by a non-VFP or on the news, I have no way of knowing if they really mean a "table" (as in VFP) or a collection (container) of tables - they almost never specify (nor does it usually matter). So I don't see that...

Interesting. I don't recall the calculator. I built a Heathkit H89 PC & brought it to Korea with me. There were only 2 of us with a pc in Korea in the military. Soon realized I could do NOTHING with it without an operating system. So I bought HDOS and took the Microsoft Basic course by...

The reason you (and everyone else) never heard of this is because I made it up. It came from my way-back brain programming in Basic where each line was numbered. If anyone (besides me) remembers that, they're showing their age. [pc] Steve

Hi Dronner, I can empathize with your situation here based on personal experience. I was programming in Foxpro 2.x, a by-the numbers app. I was told Visual Focpro would take 6 months to learn. Well, it was far less than that before I could at least complete a simple project, with the help of...

Hi Joe, You say the 3 prg's are short. I know this makes no logical sense, but maybe recreate/retype them to replace the originals. I suggest this because on rare occasions, (maybe 2 in several years) I have had to retype a perfectly good statement to avoid a compilation error. Just a wild...