Thanks, Rowland. Those FMP articles should be quite helpful.
-Al
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From: Rowland & Wilma Carson
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Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: beginners forum?
At 2008-11-22 12:58 -0800 Al and Gretchen Brookes wrote:
>I clearly need a forum for beginners. Any suggestions?
Al - I know it's not a discussion forum, but About This Particular
Macintosh (ATPM) has been running an occasional series of FMP
articles that I think are suitable for entry-level folk.
There's a good example in the current (November 2008) issue on text
calculations to increment version numbers.
It's not an elegant way to implement version numbering (I'd have used
separate numerical fields and concatenated them) but that's not the
point - it shows off a lot of useful text-parsing and manipulation
techniques.
You'll have to check the indexes to see which issues have FMP
articles in them. ATPM has archives of all previous issues.
<http://www.atpm.com>
regards
Rowland
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