Open selection set exclusions

Nancy Palmquist nlp at vss3.com
Fri Mar 14 07:42:42 PDT 2008


Jeff Harrison wrote:
> --- 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.
> 

Jeff,

That is wonderful. I love it when I find a new trick.  Do you mind if I add it 
to the tips on my web page?  That would be a very useful item to remember.

Nancy

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