>>>Hi Graig,
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>>>In your blog, I read "You can't do control structures such as IF/ELSE, FOR, DO WHILE, etc. in the Command Window. "
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>>>I don't know if I get your statement right, but I've been doing that for years in VFP...
>>Really !
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>>from help
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>>The commands IF, ELSE, ENDIF, TEXT, ENDTEXT, EXIT, RETRY, RETURN, SUSPEND, DO WHILE, ENDDO, DO CASE, ENDCASE, SCAN, ENDSCAN, FOR, and ENDFOR are not allowed in the Command window; you must use these statements in a program.
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>>like Craig I don't think you can .Can you give an example .
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>>Thanks
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>>Nick
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>Actually you can, but it has practically no value. If you type a small program in the command window, and use ctrl-enter instead of enter, you can highlight what you have written, right-click and choose Exectute Selection. What happens "behind the scene" is that VFP creates a temp file, execute it and deletes it, this is also what happens when you use the Execscript() function.
I've been doing that for a long time too, but I'm not sure why you say it has practically no value. I use it to test loops and bits of code when I don't feel like dropping little prgs all over the place that I have to delete later.
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