This looks promising. However, what would you do if several records in MyTable match KeyField? Would you recommend SET SKIP, or expand the SELECT to include a subquery (and get all PKs of table MyTable)?
Hilmar.
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SELECT KeyField from AnotherTable Into Cursor KeyCursor
>SET RELATION TO KeyField INTO Mytable
>SCAN
> ...
>ENDSCAN
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>>I want to process, in a SCAN loop, all records that satisfy a given condition. The condition is most easily expressed as a SELECT - SQL - but what is the best way to combine the two?
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>>Pseudocode:
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>>SCAN where KeyField in (SELECT KeyField from AnotherTable)
>> ...
>>ENDSCAN
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>>The processing itself is too complicated to place into a single INSERT - SQL command.
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>>Basic criteria: 1) code should not be too messy, 2) it should be reasonably fast.
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>>TIA, Hilmar.
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