Re: Filtering Oddity

Gene I would like to see an actual situation where set filter is preferable over select() according to you. Regards Koen

Op wo 15 mei 2019 om 19:49 schreef Gene Wirchenko gene@shaw.ca

At 02:00 2019-05-15, Koen Piller koen.piller@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi, The use of 'Set Filter' in VFP is outdated. Nowadays we use Select....from...Where...into

  Who is "we"?

  Your select statement does not do the same thing.  I use set

filter to check for data having certain properties especially when I am likely to change said data. It is excellent for when I wish to diddle some data to force an error condition during program testing.

  Many xBASE commands are very good for use in exploration,

debugging, testing, and the like.

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Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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