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>>>Sorry for jumping in, but in dealing with old code something to keep in mind is that many people used only 4 characters for the commands, so you need to take into account "orde" and "inde" (I was never a fan of this shortcuts but I did find set inde to and set orde to or even use table orde tag...)
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>>I know, and I should have included the shorter version. Actually, the first thing I did with that application, was to replace all the shortened words with the full ones. That was actually a far easier job than I expected, mostly because it was an all prg project.
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>I do not realy see why not just using VFP's Code Reference. It allows to regexp, so the search for
set\s+order?\s+to should be a simple thing.
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>Replace with the Code Reference is an other problem. If you go for prg and scx, no problem. With vcx it's a bit dangerous, there is a bug in the way vcx's are used (not in the Code Refernce, it only asumes wrong)
I don't use Code Reference anymore, it's way too slooooow. GoFish is like Code Reference with 100 turbo chargers, and much more flexible.
http://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=GoFish. And it also supports RegEx, by the way.