Passed parameters and selection sets

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Ray Scheel (Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:02:02 -0500):
[...]
> > First if you are assigning the value with -r on a command
> > line, you can
> > use that information in the processing and remove or select
> > as required.
>
> That is exactly what I ended up doing in logic very similar to what you
> provided.  I am mainly aggravated that the selection set screen
> truncated the values I entered and didn't bother to let me know it had
> done so until I returned to it trying to figure out why my selection
> processing was acting bizarrely for the leading "_" parameters.  I don't
> see any reason for that limitation, especially since it appears other
> system fields do not display that behavior.
[...]

Other system fields don't change length based on what you pass on the
command line.  Since the extended selection set editor adjusts the
length of the "value" entry to that of the field being compared, the
"value" entry for @PM will be one character if you only pass one
character (or none) in the "-r" flag.

Try the same scenario when you pass "-r 1234567890" on the command
line.

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