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Determine relative record position
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23/10/1998 10:08:14
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00149770
Message ID:
00150877
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23
>>>>I'm selecting two records in a table so I can copy or delete all the records between each of the selected record. My problem comes when the table is indexed. Is there a way to do this? I'm having a problem determining if the second record is before or after the first record. I'm using 5.0a. TIA
>>>
lcKey = key()
>>>* On one of recs
>>>luValue1 = eval(lcKey)
>>>go nOtherRec
>>>luValue2 = eval(lcKey)
>>>select * from mytabel ;
>>>  where &lcKey between ;
>>>  min(luValue1,luValue2) ;
>>>  and  max(luValue1,luValue2)
Cetin
>>
>>Worked like a charm Cetin. I also needed to update a field using the condition so I replaced the SELECT statement with a REPLACE statement and it does just what I needed. Thanks again...
>
>Glad to be helpfull :) As a reminder, while "select" part could be replaced by endless :) solutions of FP, select also supports a "set field1 = newvalue..." as an alternative to "replace".
>Cetin

I ran into little problem. The procedure works great when all the records are unique in the index key. If the last record I select has multiple records with the same key past it, it selects those records also. Don't know if you have run into this before. Any suggestion would help. Thanks again.
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