I think I've spotted it!
The syntax highlighting should have shown you what was going on....
The problem is that you are not terminating the strings correctly (as if you
didn't already know that).
inputbox( 'Name Search', // string is terminated correctly
'Enter the name you''re looking for', // that's not a double quote, it is 2
single quotes
'' // and 2 single quotes again
);
The issue is, if you want to use a quote in a quoted string, you have to
quote it. I think I could be a politician having come up with that
outrageous double-speak.
Most likely, you have a problem with the "you''re" bit. Don't those 2
single quotes between the u and the re look like a double quote? If you
paste the text directly into your text editor, you'll see that they are
separate characters. A pair of single quotes like that in a pascal string
(in source code) equate to a single quote character in the resulting output.
You come across the same sort of issue with path-names when you are
programming in C since the backslash character is used as an escape
character.
eg: C:\program files\my files\lib
becomes in C:
path = strcpy( path, 'c:\\program files\\myfiles\\lib' )
I hope this sorts you out Brendon.
Trevor
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 6:16 PM
Subject: [DUG]: help with search string
in the following code i get the error undetermined string; any ideas
SearchText : string;
tmp : address;
begin
//error here// SearchText := inputbox( 'Name Search', 'Enter the name
you''re looking
for', '' );
if (SearchText <> '') and Find( SearchText ) then
begin
read( AddressFile, tmp );
eName.text := tmp.Name;
eStreetAddress.text := tmp.StreetAddress;
ecity.text:=tmp.city;
ephone.text:=tmp.phone;
emobile.text:=tmp.mobile;
eemail.text:=tmp.email;
end;
end;
...
Brendon Toogood
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