Display on screen total of selection

[Walter D Vaughan Jr]

It might be helpful if you could tell us what other development environments
you *are* familiar with. It might make it easier to explain how to do it in
filePro. Also how and where you are envisioning using this.

Think of selection sets as a "filter", and not a collection like in SQL.
There is no Select Count(*) in normal filePro, but you can accomplish the
same thing with features like @Once, or setting a global variable allows
code only to run for the first record processed.

I don't know what generation you come from, but a lot of times it makes it
easier to thing about how filePro handles data if you think in terms of IBM
punch cards rather than Excel spreadsheets. 

> -----Original Message-----
> Hi guys.  I know this is a simple request, but I'm a FilePro newbie and
need
> some assistance.
> 
> Often, I just need to know how many records meet my selection set.
> 
> How do I display a record count total on the screen - of records that meet
my
> selection set?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Sherrill in Memphis