Clipper - select()

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select()

Alan Secker

2005-10-05, 6:55 pm

I've just hit a snag.

nWkarea := select("NAME")

// returns the correct area number but doesn't change to NAME.

nWkarea := select()
select ("NAME")

// Does.

This is in Clipper 5.2e
Anyone else getting this?

Alan Secker

Ian Boys

2005-10-05, 6:55 pm

From the Help file:
SELECT() returns the work area of the specified alias as a integer
numeric value.

So it just tells you where you are. It doesn't work like SETCOLOR() by
changing and reporting at the same time. SELECT NAME will change the work
area

Ian Boys
DTE

"Alan Secker" <alan(delete this bit)@asandco.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.10.05.18.49.54.626261@asandco.co.uk...
> I've just hit a snag.
>
> nWkarea := select("NAME")
>
> // returns the correct area number but doesn't change to NAME.
>
> nWkarea := select()
> select ("NAME")
>
> // Does.
>
> This is in Clipper 5.2e
> Anyone else getting this?
>
> Alan Secker
>
>
>

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