browse lookup phenomenon - SOLVED!!!!!

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Dennis Malen (Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:24:15 -0500):

> Jean-Pierre,
>
> See paragraph 2 for your answer. Then read the rest of my posting. It
> explains why I use to do it.

Here's a perfect example of why inline quoting, with trimming, is far
superior to top-posting.  (Well, at least it's only paragraph 2 that
I have to count to, rather than, say, paragraph 37.)

[...]
> > | I was always under the misguided impression that if you have a dummy
> > | field that was already defined that the dummy field would take on
> > | that characteristic. I not only use that concept for "rn" but for
> > | other dummy fields. I thought it always worked.
[...]

I've read that paragraph several times, and I'm still not sure what you
mean by it.

If you give a dummy field a length and type, such as "rn(8,.0)", then
the field will have that length and type.  If you don't give it any
length and type, then it will take on the length and type of the value
assigned to it.

What was your "misguided impression" about this?  What did you think
happened differently?

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