In honor of National Take-a-Penny/Leave-a-Penny Day, I thought it would be nice to start a thread to collect people's favorite 4D tricks and keystroke combos. How this came up is that Wayne Stewart and I recently joined Damon Carley in giving some presentations in Sydney and New Zealand. One of the biggest crowed pleasers?
SELECTION TO ARRAY(\ [Customer]ID;$customer_ids_at;\ [Customer]LastName;$last_names_at) The "\" line break/continuation character. It's been out there for about 10 years, but not everyone knows about it. It's great! It's great for array sort, selection to array/array to selection, and a lot of OB SET kind of stuff. Great! Someone said "I'm sure that's in the docs somewhere, but how would you find it?" Good point, I guess you just look for / ;-) Quite a few people started sharing their favorite tips and it turns out that there are *tons* of them. So, here's mine: --------------------------------------------- Code Line Break Character --------------------------------------------- You can break a single line of code into multiple lines to simplify reading and editing using the / character. So, if you found that useful or if it reminds you of one of your favorites, please post another one. I'm sure no one knows all of the good ones but everyone must know a few. If anyone wants to post links to the docs, that's more than welcome. (Tim & Miyako, we're looking at you because you've each spoiled us with good links down the years), ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
