Open selection set exclusions

[Bruce Easton]

Jeff Harrison wrote Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:24 PM:
> --- Don Coleman <dcoleman at dgcreact.com> wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me how to exclude similar codes in
> > an open selection set?
> > 
> > Example:
> > If I am running a report for customer # PAC but a
> > customer # PACH also
> > exists 
> [...snip]
> 
> You can do the following, for example, to specifically
> match a space after your selection:
> 
> 9 eq "PAC ="
> 
> Use the = (filepro's wildcard character in a selection
> set) preceeded by a space.
> 
> I'm sure this is in an FAQ somewhere :-)
> 
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
> 
> Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and
> easiest ways to generate filepro exports and imports.
>  

Great to know!  It works.  Now just need to 
make sure the customer consistenty knows to use 
the selection set that way.  Hopefully they are 
not running data-posting output requests from selection 
sets as well.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.