>I have not used this program statement much and am not clear on syntax. The program statement evaluates a field - cursor.ins_type which contains one of five four character values COMP, MB, MCS, BC, FEP .
>The statement looks like this:
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>IF cursor.ins_type $ "COMP:MB :MCS :BC "
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>My question -
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>What significance do the colons have in this. I can't find any help on the syntax for the character string. Can the character string just be continuous and yield the same result? (i.e. "COMPMB MCS BC"
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>TIA,
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>Bill
Bill,
Don't know where this example with colons come from but is a good one. Yes, w/o them you would have the desired result. In fact in your version you replace them with a space. It's just for preventing wrong concatanated return values and could be a colon, comma, space etc. For your example a better substitute could be inlist().
Cetin