David,
Thank for your help. I was looking at the VFP 8 help which does not mention "-1" as an option. Now I am all set.
>Dmitry,
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>From the Help file
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In Visual FoxPro 6, the nStartElement and nElementsSearched parameters are optional. The nStartElement must be > 0 while nElementsSearched can be any value. In order to accommodate the nSearchColumn parameter, you will need to bypass these parameters by passing a value of –1.>
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>>The help for Ascan() function says that if you omit the nStartElement and nElementSearched, VFP will search the entire array. Yet the following syntax does not work:
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>>nRet = ascan( myarray, "ABC",,,2 )
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>>(I want to search the entire array, column 2 for value "ABC". I know I could figure out the first and the last element number but why can't VFP do it if I omit the arguments, as help suggests).
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