>>Hi,
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>>How do you append from one cursor to another with FOR?
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>>I tried:
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>>select C_CURSOR1
>>append from DBF("C_CURSOR2") fields FLD1, FLD2 FOR C_CURSOR2.FLD1 = "123"
>>
>>
>>But it appends ALL records from the cursor C_CURSOR2 instead of just the ones matching the FOR
>>
>>What am I missing?
>
>IIRC, the active record in cursor2 is not moving during the import. The for condition is applied to each record after it is inserted into c_cursor1. As each record is imported it looks at c_cursor2, and sees that the value matches and leaves the record in c_Cursor1. You'd need a relation between cursor1 and cursor2 for the record pointer in cursor2 to move.
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>To do it really obviously and cleanly,
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select * from cursor2 where fld1="123" into cursor c_cursor3 nofilter
>select c_cursor1
>append from dbf("c_cursor3")
Thank you.
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