>Hi,
> This whole business explains a few troubles I have had over the years.
>Never realized it returned a text value. Good thing to learn.
>Two questions arise.
>1. In the example, Dennis gave, what does (retexpression) stand for. Not
>like returncolumn right? And the second question will probably better help
>answer the first.
>
>2. In the 'Help' for select, the syntax (to an untrained 'wanna-be'
>programmer such as myself), is very hard to understand. I realize that it
>can be a very powerful tool in my kit, but I spend a lot of time 'trying'
>code and looking at the syntax. Is there a book or resource out there that
>explains the select clause in greater detail?
>
>Thanks.
That pretty much sums up a fair bit of my experience with RBase.
Thanks to all who replied on this one.
Lucas
At 10:49 AM 4/29/02 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/29/2002 10:28:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< Before I create a choose command, I create and test a slect statement
>first.
> That way, I will get the correct error messages. The ones returned from
> choose can be VERY misleading.
>
> SELECT (expression),(retexpression) FROM tblname WHERE clause ....
>
> This will tell me if I will get what I want without errors.
>
> Then I simply replace "SELECT" with "CHOOSE varname[, retcol] FROM #VALUES
> FOR"
> and tack on the "AT scrnrow scrncol ......" syntax >>
>Dennis,
>In the select (expression), are you sayiong I can concentenate a group of
>columns as an expression and choose from the concantenation? If so, are there
>any limitations such as length ?
>TIA
>Damon
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