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FUNCTION command documentation
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12/08/2001 12:28:14
Cindy Winegarden
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, United States
 
 
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12/08/2001 12:26:53
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00542750
Message ID:
00542770
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The UT has been a little flaky lately - I know Michel's been making a lot of changes.

>Yea,
>
>I had a mental block (happening more often) and I thought I had updated this message to say 'forget about it' but you seem to have gotten there first so my update didn't take (without indication that it didn't).
>
>Thanks anyway.
>
>
>>Jim,
>>
>>Imagine a PRG file called TheProgramFile which is a "library" of small functions and procedures.
>>As you know, you would SET PROCEDURE TO TheProgramFile ADDITIVE in your Main program to use such a program library.
>>
>>Now imagine that the functions/procedures included in it contain one called TheProgramWhichDoesAddition and one called TheProgramWhichDoesSubtraction.
>>
>>You would say DO TheProgramWhichDoesAddition IN TheProgramFile.PRG or DO "TheProgramWhichDoesAddition" IN TheProgramFile.
>>
>>
>>>The following is extracted from the VFP7 documentation under "Function command - Parameters" in the latest MSDN library.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know what it means?
>>>
>>>---- start of extract
>>>FunctionName
>>>In Visual FoxPro, function names can be up to 254 characters long.
>>>
>>>To distinguish a program file name with more than 10 characters from a function beginning with the same 10 characters in these two products, surround the program file name with quotation marks or include an extension after the program file name.
>>>---- end of extract
>>>
>>>I don't know if this was also present in VFP6 documentation (overlaid by VFP7).
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>JimN
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