Thanks Wol... It looks good and closely resembles Gerry's answer.
--Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wols Lists Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Reading Dictionary Items On 29/09/11 19:43, Bill Brutzman wrote: > I would like read open a (large) dictionary, read the line items, and write > back the @ID field to Attribute <4> (the column heading) of each. > > Syntax help would be appreciated. I'm guessing SQL might be your best bet - that should be a simple update query. But if you want to use BASIC, just OPEN "DICT", FILE TO BLAH SELECT BLAH LOOP READNEXT ID SETTING MER WRITEV ID TO BLAH, ID, 4 WHILE MER REPEAT You'll need to clean that up, but there's your basic program. > > --Bill Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
