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What is that command that returns words from text?
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24/01/2008 14:29:52
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
 
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24/01/2008 13:55:16
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
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Thread ID:
01283877
Message ID:
01285212
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25
>>>>Each situation is different.
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>>>>Repeating the answer for a simple question makes sense. Like this one Re: Printing user selected pages Thread #1284576, for example. <g>
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>>>And this is where I disagree with you. If it's so simple, write it up. Maybe I'll understand it better the way you explain than I did the way the last guy explained it.
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>>I have actually thought about this lately and can't come to a decision. From a developers point of view we are not really "normalizing" the solutions by reposting them.
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>FWIW, I've known lots of people who have saved some of their common answers, so they can just cut and paste.
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>But I think there is lots of value in having several (or even many) different people answer the same question. I know that when I first learned FoxBase (nearly 20 years ago!), the variety of answers on the old FoxForum taught me a lot. After a while, there were questions I could answer, even though I'd never done the particular thing.
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>> From a personal point of view, I don't go to the doctor for a health issue for him to hand me a book and tell me that my solution is on page 1425.
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>Right. And having multiple people answer is kind of like getting multiple opinions from doctors.

Good point. Everybody has a different point of view.
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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