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Simplify concantenated line of code
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17/07/2007 15:36:42
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01241143
Message ID:
01241264
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>FOR ix = 1 to Whatever
>>>>>>    WITH EVALUATE('loObj'+TRANSFORM(m.ix))
>>>>>>         REPLACE JMJ_IN.Diag1 WITH LEFT(ALLTRIM(UPPER(.Field019)),AT('^',.Field019)-1)
>>>>>>    ENDWITH
>>>>>>ENDFOR
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Personally, I'm scared to death of WITH...ENDWITH
>>>>
>>>>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~WithLeaksLocals~VFP
>>>
>>>Yep,
>>>When you use some functions or any other EXTERNAL to WITH...ENDWITH could be dangerous, but with simple REPLACE?
>>
>>Absolutely!
>>
>>WITH SOMETHING
>> REPLACE SOMEFIELD WITH MYUDF()
>>ENDWITH
>>
>>MYUDF.PRG
>>IF M.THIS OR .THAT
>>
>>".that" should have been "m.that", but oops. Try to debug this (or THAT) :)
>
>Hmm, I was talk about simple REPLACE :-)
>
>WITH Something
>     REPLACE SOMEFIELD WITH .SomeProperty
>ENDWITH
>
I'm an all or nothing kind of guy, I guess. If the technique does not make things safer, I'm reluctant to use it. .SomeProperty could have an access or assign leaving things open to mistakes. :)

I've had no driving need to use WITH...ENDWITH and feel pretty comfortable with continuing to avoid it. :)
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