You can just watch the value of variable f. A valid filter expression stored in variable f will not produce error.
What are you trying to do when you said "...would prefer just one statement.... in the heat of debugging"?
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 6:46 AM Gene Wirchenko gene@shaw.ca wrote:
I do know that I can do f=filter()+" and empty(wfccccd)" set filter to &fbut in the heat of debugging, I would prefer just one statement.
Is there a way to extend a filter in one statement withoutretyping the current filter expression?