mhs@houxa.UUCP (M.SHERIF) (05/13/86)
How to make up a test statement on a MEMO field? I would like to do something like that: If the MEMO field is empty skip else print the field or If the first 6 characters of the MEMO field satisfy CONDITION do this else do that I have tried several approaches but none could work. Could someone help? Thanks M.Hashem Sherif houxa!mhs
dale@wucs.UUCP (Dale Frye) (05/22/86)
In article <1038@houxa.UUCP>, mhs@houxa.UUCP (M.SHERIF) writes: > How to make up a test statement on a MEMO field? > I would like to do something like that: > > If the MEMO field is empty > skip > else > print the field > > or > If the first 6 characters of the MEMO field satisfy CONDITION > do this > else > do that > > I have tried several approaches but none could work. dBase cannot acess the contents of the memo field. The only way to do what you want to do is by using an outside program. A good source is Data Based Advisor magazine. The memo field is poorly handled by dBase. It is a disk hog. I advise you to read up on the do's and don'ts found in the various magazines before you try to seriously use the memo field. Good Luck Dale Frye @ Washington University in St. Louis.