From the VFP Help File:
Character Operators- Concatenation. Removes trailing blanks from the element preceding the operator then joins two elements.
>I am converting some programs from FoxPro 2.6a for Windows.
>Could someone explain to me what the following minus sign (-) is doing? I can't find this in Visual FoxPro 6.0 Help. The man whom I am to replace says that it hits the end of the data in the Loading.Desc field, rather than the end fo the filed, which would include the spaces after the data. Why is this not listed in the Help File, or was it in FoxPro Windows 2.6a?> IF UPPER(LOADING.adjust) = 'X'
> REPLACE LOADING.DESC WITH ;
> LOADING.DESC -'['-STR(LOADING.net)-'lbs]'
> REPLACE LOADING.net WITH 0
> ENDIF
>I would have done the following:
> IF UPPER(LOADING.adjust) = 'X'
> REPLACE LOADING.DESC WITH ;
> ALLTRIM(LOADING.DESC) + '['-STR(LOADING.net)-'lbs]'
> REPLACE LOADING.net WITH 0
> ENDIF