>>>>>I have a slew of @ say get statements such as
>>>>>stat_date1 -->stat_date25 and want to be able to disable any ones that have values in them. This is an app in foxpro/DOS 2.5( I know but they like it) looking for a programatic way to do this.
>>>>
>>>>IF EMPTY(field)
>>>> SHOW GET field ENABLE
>>>>ELSE
>>>> SHOW GET field DISABLE
>>>>ENDIF
>>>**************
>>>The thing is I already have it hard coded which looks like
>>>
>>>"@ 5,0 SAY "Statmnt_dt" ;
>>> SIZE 1,10, 0
>>>@ 5,11 GET statmnt_dt ;
>>> SIZE 1,5 ;
>>> DEFAULT " " VALID STATMNT_DT $ SV
>>>@ 7,1 SAY "Stat_date1" ;
>>> SIZE 1,10, 0
>>>@ 7,14 GET stat_date1 ;
>>> SIZE 1,5 ;
>>> DEFAULT " " VALID STAT_DATE1 $ SV
>>>@ 7,23 SAY "Statamt_1" ;
>>> SIZE 1,9, 0
>>>@ 7,35 GET statamt_1 ;
>>> SIZE 1,7 ;
>>> DEFAULT 0
>>>@ 7,48 SAY "Credit1" ;
>>> SIZE 1,7, 0
>>>@ 7,59 GET credit1 ;
>>> SIZE 1,9 ;
>>> DEFAULT 0"
>>>but keeps going to about credit20. that's alot of code so I was hoping for some fnct or quik&dirty method.Perhaps a macro or something.
>>
>>You can call this from the READ's Show code. I don't get what you mean by quick and dirty method (I know what that means) but I don't see how that applies here. Another thing you might want to look into is GENSCRNX, but I wouldn't even have any idea where you could find that nowadays.
>
>THANKS for the reply Fred. Let me ask, would I then have to add your 5 lines of code for every @ say get I have?

Yes, you would. We used to do all of our GET's into an array (from a SCATTER). That way, we could do it all in a loop, just changing the array index.