Gene and Woody's point is that XBASE tools are quite useful for us when developing/testing, not that they are necessarily preferable for production code.
-- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Koen Piller Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Filtering Oddity Woody And where is set filter in this respect? Browse is not for end users, with a grid you are better of. Koen Op wo 15 mei 2019 om 20:32 schreef <[email protected]> > I totally agree with Gene. xBase was originally developed for > interactive use, and those commands are just perfect for hacking > around in real live data. No clumpsy and verbose SQL statements, just > USE your data and massage it as you want. > > I often also do some ON KEY LABEL xx REPLACE / STUFF / STRTRAN and > visually skip through a BROWSE and if I find a culprit I then just > press my F-Key for some magic... > > Believe me, xBase commands are even better than sliced bread! <g> > > wOOdy > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: ProFox <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von Koen Piller > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2019 20:02 > An: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: Filtering Oddity > > Gene > I would like to see an actual situation where set filter is preferable > over > select() according to you. > Regards > Koen > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/cacuu1st0whmwvuobrye1aqplfxhqfpkhtnln0z7sa9fvwnk...@mail.gmail.com ** 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. Report [OT] Abuse: http://leafe.com/reportAbuse/cacuu1st0whmwvuobrye1aqplfxhqfpkhtnln0z7sa9fvwnk...@mail.gmail.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/bn6pr10mb1458d1fc87bf69f65fe8afe7d2...@bn6pr10mb1458.namprd10.prod.outlook.com ** 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.
