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- ** WILD PROCEDURE DOCUMENTATION
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- This routine was written by Laurens Meyer, a Clipper user from New Zealand
- The routine enables him to select records based on a user-entered wild card.
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- For example, if the user wants all records with the second and third letters
- to be XY, and the field in the database on which the match will me made is
- 10 characters long, then the WILD procedure is called with a wildcard of
- '?XY???????' and the field name. That is, if the field was called ACCOUNTNO
- then the call to WILD would be:
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- DO wild WITH wildcard,matchmac,'ACCOUNTNO'
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- To use the macro generated, use a filter or a copy command:
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- SET FILTER TO &matchmac
- GO TOP
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- Now the only records visible will be those that match the wildcard.
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- Thanks to: Laurens Meyer
- Remarkable Enterprises
- Dunedin, New Zealand
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