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  • Subject: RE: Passing parms to query
  • From: Roger Boucher <RBoucher@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 08:25:20 -0800

If everyone would please disregard this question... it works today, even
though it didn't work the other day!  Must have been some sort of EBCAK
I guess.

Thanks again!

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Hall [mailto:peteh@inwave.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 7:49 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Passing parms to query


At 14:34 12/28/1998 -0800, Roger Boucher wrote:
>So... I didn't know you could do this!  I've been trying it...
selecting
>on a field with a selection value of :field and it works great as long
>as the field is alpha.  But if the field I'm selecting on is numeric...
>no luck.  It runs but doesn't select the record.  I've tried creating a
>QMQRY just to make sure and that works fine.  Anyone got any ideas?
>Thanks in advance!

A numeric literal in STRQMQRY must be passed in a character variable,
and
must NOT be enclosed in apostrophes.

hth

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh
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