Surely what some of this discussion showed was that parameters (even Foxpro ?parms) do not need delimiters, and if a UI is used (a screen or even the ancient ACCEPT 'prompt' TO parm) then you don't even need to use delimiters to create the parameters? AndyD 8-)₹
On 17/02/2012 15:03, Ken Dibble wrote: > <snip> > Wouldn't it have been waaaay simpler to standardize on some character > that has no business being in anything a user might enter into a > query, like, for example, one of those old high-ASCII border-drawing > characters we used to use to make fancy screens in the DOS days? > Comment characters are easy to strip out. Type-checking is also easy. > If we could have a universal string delimiter, honestly, wouldn't > something like that really be preferable to having to write hundreds > of static queries, views or stored procedures? <snip> _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
