filepro INDIRECT function

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0400, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> >On a html page Have a couple of Radio buttons with Field names and field 
> >numbers onthem. So when a user checks some of these radio button and 
> >Sumbits them.
> 
> The rest of this depends upon wrapping filePro in something like a 
> perl/python/ruby/sh script or using fpCGIv2. Do you have experience with 
> any of those?  I wrote a tutorial on how to do this with Perl years ago, 
> but I lost all my 1994-2005 archives.

This seems like a good time to reinvent a technique that people have
been reinventing for some time, which is similar to (if not identical
to) what Walter is talking about:

If ever you can't do something directly in filePro, use filePro itself
to *write a segment of filePro code* that does the job, and then CALL
it.

I did this, back in the early eighties, both on an IBM datamaster23,
and on a PTDOS system built out of S-100 components: The "shell
script/batch" file called a BASIC program which prompted the user for
parameters the batch language wasn't powerful enough to handle, and
then wrote another batch file, which the first batch file called when
the BASIC program exited.

It can be problematic in multi-user environments, but...

Cheers,
-- jra
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