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12/07/2001 13:22:31
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00528845
Message ID:
00529849
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12
>>>>Is anybody having that error doing SEEK('parm1', 'parm2', 'parm3') on a table involved into relation?
>>>>Thanks Mark
>>>
>>>Do you get the error if you put an equal sign in front of the SEEK() function? If I remember correctly, SEEK() is one of the VFP functions that will not work unless you use =SEEK(.....)
>>
>>You're right. W/o equal sign '=' it'll be SEEK command that have different syntax.
>
>Usually, you do not have to precede any function, procedure or method call with an equal sign in VFP. This one is different and is probably because there is also the SEEK command.

That's correct. But SEEK("value") works without the "=", but that's only because it's the same as SEEK "value". The parenthesis have no meaning to it in that context, it doesn't make it a function like normal (probably because of the SEEK command).
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

foxcentral.net
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