How to browse lookup exact match?

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Nov 7 14:30:46 PST 2006


Only Dan Snyder would say something like:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to display related records from one file in a browse lookup
> window of another file and I'm having some trouble.  I want the browse
> window to only show items that are an exact match, but I can't seem to
> figure out how to do this.  If I use the flags -nxm on the lookup it returns
> matches and partial matches.  If I use lookup with the -nx flags or no flags
> it returns every record in the file starting at the first match.

Run through it with code that uses COMPARE and DROP?  

Is that possible on a browse lookup?  Been a long time since I've used a
browse one.  I thought it was, though, as I remember people being able to
do all sorts of neat things to the contents of a browse lookup from a
course I took some 13 years ago.

mark->


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