Re: Odd Date selection

Yes to both for uv also. I meant pairing as you said, 2 readnexts.

Chandru
"Dale" <dale_benedict@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mar 27, 6:45 am, "Chandru Murthi"
<cmur_xyz_thi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On a related subject, does this syntax not work on any Pick (or jbase)
system:

SELECT file dictword1 dictword2 ...

where the select list will have pairs (in this case) of selected data? I
use
this a lot.

Chandru


Chandru...

This style of select works well on D3. I use it a lot. A few things
to be wary of...

1. You really don't get 'pairs' of data if you are working with multi-
valued attributes. Each multi-value takes an attribute in the select
list generated. Sort by-exp really helps here!

2. Donno about other system, but each piece of data retrieved from
the file will create an attribute in the select list. 'Pairing' the
data when read from the select list technically does not happen. The
pairing is really done by the programmer who realizes that two
readnexts are required to get the paired set of data (In your case).

hth

Dale



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