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  • Subject: Re: Call Query
  • From: Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:45:27 +1300

At 10:25 AM 10/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Evan,
>
>If I have to use numeric variables in a QRYSLT, I always build the QRYSLT in a
>variable and then specify:         QRYSLT(&QRYSLT)
>
>The other trick I learned a long time ago which I still see coders struggling
>with is when a character value needs to be enclosed in quotes, they use three
>single quotes on each end of the value which, to me, is hard to read.  I use
>double quotes instead.

Dan

Me too. I thought building the variable first was an obvious thing to do, 
if only so you could dump the selection string and take a look at it in 
toto. Subsequent experience has proved to me it is not that obvious.

Cheers
Evan Harris

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