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: The value of vItems is the number of items in vListOfItems. Sorry, I copy/pasted from the helpfile that line. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Byerley" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 2:14 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Multicolumn Select in Var Lookup ListView : Patti, : Look at the ItemCnt function. It returns the number of items in the CSL : like: : : Set var vListOfItems text : -- do some processing here to collect your selections from the listview into : the variable vListOfItems : : SET VAR vItems Integer = (ITEMCNT(.vListOfItems)) : : The value of vItems is 3 : : When you know the count, you can iterate through the list using the SSUB : function : : : set var vCount integer = 1 : Set var vItem text = null : : While vCount < .vItems then : set var vItem = (ssub(.vListOfItems, .vCount)) : -- do whatever you want with vItem here : : set var vCount = (.vCount + 1) {increment the count for the next item} : : endwhile : : : : : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Patti Jakusz" <[email protected]> : To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> : Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 1:40 PM : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Multicolumn Select in Var Lookup ListView : : : Hi, : I want to have a form in which a user can select a bunch of records, then I : do some other processing with these records. I'm using 7.6. : : So I put a Variable Lookup ListView Box on my form, and selected the option : for Multicolumn select. When I show variables, Rbase has put the keys to all : the selected records into my one variable, separated by commas, just like I : had hoped. : : But now I don't know how to use them. I'd maybe like to dump them in a : temporary table, but I don't know what kind of syntax to use to get at all : these different values for my variable. : : Any help? : Thanks, : Patti Jakusz : :
