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Strange APPEND FROM problem
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27/03/2006 19:43:02
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
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Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01108188
Message ID:
01108212
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>>I am probably missing something very simple (I guess too many hours working today <g>). Here is the situation:
>>
>>
>>* Cursor MyCursor is empty
>>* Table  MyTable has field PK. The first record of MyTable PK is 5
>>* Other record in MyTable have different values of PK (1,2,etc).
>>* The following command is supposed to append records...
>>select MyCursor
>>append from MyTable for MyTable.Pk = nPk
>>* but the above works only if nPk is = 5 (that is, the value in the
>>* first record of MyTable. If I try any other value of nPk, no
>>* records are appended to MyCursor
>>
>>
>>What am I missing?
>>
>>Thank you.
>
>I'm not sure, but you don't have to specify MyTable.pk = nPk. You can use pk = nPK even if in myCursor is Pk field.

If I leave out the table name I get error "Variable 'PK' is not found". Strange. So the only way, so far, I see using the field PK in the For expression is by qualify it with alias name.
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