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13/06/2001 15:23:19
Chuck Tripi
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00519022
Message ID:
00519028
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>This may have been discuss before. I wonder why FP looks at EMPTY(m.date) as m.date < DATE()? The following is what I have to use (as always back with FPW):
>
>(auth.end > DATE() OR EMPTY(auth.end))
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>I mean, to me, looking at an empty date would mean future, yet FP looks at it backwards?

Huh? If I do the following and the command window:

dDate = {} && empty date
? dDate < date()

returns True. Empty date is like time zero in the past and is not a null value [isnull(dDate) returns false]. I do not understand the problem.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA
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