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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