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Line of code that works yet shouldn't
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03/07/2007 06:50:43
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Line of code that works yet shouldn't
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01237329
Message ID:
01237329
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Hi guys

This one is a bit weird. The following line(s):
select space(1) as undump,space(1) as dumpcode,;
  * from _fb2 where machine=='a' into table _ergdump
in a prog I'm altering works. But, in editor, the second line shows up in "commented out" colours, as expected. It makes no difference if I move the * to col 1.

Now I'd've thought it either takes the * to mean "all fields in the selected table", in which case the stipulation of the other fields should cause an error, or comment out the 2nd line, which should cause an error in the first line, with continuation ";" but no continuation.

Now I don't know what the original programmer (and I use that expression reservedly) had in mind.

Anyone shed some light on this?

'ppreciate it

Terry
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