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- From: jbc@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (CASSEL J BRIAN)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: trouble using Foxpro to index when using ctod(x) function
- Keywords: foxpro, index, ctod
- Message-ID: <23JAN199315190463@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 20:19:00 GMT
- Sender: jbc@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (CASSEL JAY)
- Organization: Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, New York
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- I have a database with a character-type field for dates
- in this format -- 01/01/92. I used the following index command,
- index on ctod(datefield) to dates.idx
- and it seemed to work okay. But when I listed off some records
- using a filter, I found that one record did not list in the
- proper order - it was out of place by about 5 records. There
- was nothing wrong with the data; and I deleted that record and
- re-entered it just to make sure...
-
- Does anyone know why this index did not work?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Brian Cassel
- jbc@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
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