Before they added "readwrite" to cursors, you could create a cursor and
then reopen it using the DBF() workaround to get a cursor that was
editable. Before that, cursors, especially the ones created with "select
* from crap into cursor morecrap" were uneditable.
At least that's how I remember it and it makes me happy, so that's my story.
Mike Copeland
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Why can't I ALTER TABLE on a cursor?
From: Kurt @ VR-FX <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 7/10/2013 5:41 PM
Yeah - that sounds about right - not sure why one would use this DBF()
thingy in the Alter...
-K-
On 7/10/2013 6:25 PM, Thierry Nivelet wrote:
Alter table crap ... ?
Thierry Nivelet
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Le 11 juil. 2013 à 00:13, "MB Software Solutions, LLC"
<[email protected]> a écrit :
VFP9SP2
My task is to import a text file which has 2 date fields that are in
MMDDYYYY format. So I import them as C(8) and then convert them
afterwards. I thought I could do this:
CREATE CURSOR crap (provnum c(9), datepaid c(8), lastdos c(8),
reimbamt n(15,2), bonusamt n(15,2), datepaid2 d, lastdos2 d,
filename v(200), tstamp t)
APPEND FROM ? type DELIMITED && I use the File dialogue to pick my
import file
REPLACE datepaid2 WITH
CTOD(LEFT(datepaid,2)+"/"+SUBSTR(datepaid,3,2)+"/"+RIGHT(datepaid,4)),
lastdos2 WITH
CTOD(LEFT(lastdos,2)+"/"+SUBSTR(lastdos,3,2)+"/"+RIGHT(lastdos,4)),
filename WITH "crap", tstamp WITH DATETIME() ALL IN crap
ALTER table DBF("crap") drop COLUMN datepaid drop COLUMN lastdos
...but it gives me a "File is in use" error. I could have swore I
did this before successfully. What am I doing wrong?
tia,
--Mike
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